[564] in athena10
Re: lynx library problem on Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Oct 9 15:43:35 2008
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:42:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>, wdc@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> 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?
I think his point is that the infoagents locker's lynx hasn't been updated
since May 2004, which is substantially older than even the last Ubuntu LTS
release before Hardy (June 2006). I think the situation is similar for a
lot of software currently in lockers that would be easy to add to the
release (there's also a lot of locker software that could not be easily
added to the release).
-Tim Abbott
