Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> said:
On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 13:05 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> It's layered, but from what I understand, an upper layer depends on a
> specific build of a lower layer. So using the up-thread example, if
> there's a security update to zlib, the lower layer can rebuild to pick
> it up, but until the upper layer (like say LO) also rebuilds on top of
> the new lower layer, they'll be running on the old version.
No, I don't believe that's accurate. It's more of a major/minor thing.
The 'lower layer' can be updated with bug and security fixes without
any rebuild or change needed to 'upper layers'. You only need a rebuild
if the 'lower layer' is doing a "major" incompatible update (this is
something the lower layer is in charge of defining).
Okay, that's good to know. I thought I got the layer description from
this list, but maybe I just misread (or read someone else's mistaken
understanding). Sorry for any confusion.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>