[1526] in Release_7.7_team
Re: patches patch release?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Oct 23 11:30:20 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:55:31 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:30:15 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> What do people think of the idea of foing a patch release to
> explicitly update our Solaris (and IRIX) patches to the latest
> recommended list, maybe around winter break/IAP of each year? Would
> this be a lot of work?
Sometimes when you put in a pile of patches, you get interoperability
problems between local filesystems and the packs. So we'd need a bit
of testing. But in general, I think this is doable.
> Am I confused and we've started to encorporate new recommended
> patches as we do other patch releases?
So far we've only put in patches when there's been a specific request.
The release engineer's official position on OS patches: it would be
good if we could keep up with the recommended and security patches
(that is, not be more than a few weeks behind on security patches, and
not be behind on recommended patches when we're putting out a patch
release anyway) for our platforms, but most of the additional workload
would have to be on the OS support people, not on the release
engineer. This means cursory testing of the new patches, not just
identifying them.
