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Re: A different approaches to RedHat updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Fri Oct 25 11:37:37 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:14:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> I wonder: Could part of the problem be from this policy of releasing
> monolithic updates in the first place? After all, the whole point of
> RPM is to provide for gradual updates of a system. How feasible would
> it be for new rpms of packages to be released on a continual basis and
> new CD "snapshots" of the current packages released, say, quarterly?
Impossible. This would make integration testing nearly impossible and
drive all of to early graves (I have one foot in my grave already, just
a little push will finish me off <sigh>).
Erik
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