[563] in athena10
Re: lynx library problem on Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Oct 9 15:33:55 2008
Message-Id: <200810091933.m99JX8fI008819@dit.mit.edu>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, tabbott@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU, athena10@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:52:04 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:33:08 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Alex> One major concern I have about this is that if we only
Alex> update the athena10 base OS when Ubuntu LTS releases come
Alex> out, many packages are likely to get severely out of
Alex> date. I'd feel much better about this if we could use the
Alex> regular, 6 month interval Ubuntu releases for athena10.
>When evaluating this, I'd suggest that you examine the release history
>for the software that you are adding to the release. I suspect that
>in many cases LTS releases will be more frequent updates.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "in many cases LTS releases
will be more frequent updates". It's my understanding that LTS
releases by Ubuntu will be every 2 years, and that only bugfix updates
to packages are made in the interim (if we don't update to regular
Ubuntu releases in the meantime). Hence functionality-wise, towards
the EOL of an LTS, essentially all packages will be at least 2 years
old and maybe more?
Alex
