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Re: A different approaches to RedHat updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Reilly)
Fri Oct 25 12:31:52 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:57:44 -0500
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From: John Reilly <reillyj@onramp.net>
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Now, I'm really confused! I thought the $400 Red Hat support program did
exactly this. What do these people get on their quarterly CD?
Does this also mean you don't do "integration" testing on the "fixes" you
release.
John
>> 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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