Speaking of Fedora being behind....

Scott angrykeyboarder at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 18:40:52 UTC 2004


Paul Howarth wrote:

> Scott wrote:
>
>> Ben Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, Fedora seems to have goals that are at odds with one 
>>> another in this respect, specifically the goal to "do as much 
>>> development in upstream as possible" seems to be at odds with being 
>>> able to do any modification of upstream sources to add integration 
>>> and functionality.
>>
>>
>>
>> What exactly does "upstream" mean?
>
>
> "Upstream" means the original distribution of code made by the 
> software's author, as opposed to patches or configuration changes made 
> by packagers for their RPMs etc.
>
> Paul.
>
Aa-ha! Thank you. I've been wondering about this for a while (I see it 
in Synaptic every so often 'upgrades - upstream').

Scott




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