Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet(a)amorsen.dk> wrote:
Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> writes:
> Fedora 8's been out less a year. It has, in that timeframe, received *over
> 4600 updates*. Fedora 9 has received over 2600 in its current lifetime.
>
> How is upgrading to the next release really that many orders of magnitude
> more change than this?
The largest difference is that upgrading to the next release is
almost
an all-or-nothing thing. Incremental upgrades during the release
generally
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+--- But by no means always...
affect just one package at a time, so testing is
relatively
easy. When you upgrade the whole distribution you change openssl
version, and that basically means upgrading everything that could in
any way cause trouble, all at once.
Exactly like when OpenSSL is upgraded mid-life of the distribution. And
"just rebuild the new stuff over the old distribution" will probably break
badly when this happens too.
It is far from impossible, I do
it
all the time, but it does need a lot more care.
Care that could better be spent on the /new/ release.
Once OpenSSL gets banished this pain will subside a bit, but it will
probably never go away.
/That/ pain might dissapear, others are sure around...
Back in the "good" old days it was
libc
causing that problem, but the developers of glibc have done an
excellent job of keeping compatibility for many years now.
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