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On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:10, Matt Thrailkill wrote: |
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> Are prior versions going to be kept available on rsync mirrors, |
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> similar to how one might leave a FreeBSD box cvsup'ing against |
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> RELENG_4_8 rather than -CURRENT or -STABLE? Furthermore, if prior |
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> versions would be left up on the mirrors, how practical would it be to |
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> maybe have the GLSA people backporting the GLSAs? The BSDs do this, |
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> but obviously you can't keep it up for ever... the OpenBSD people only |
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> do it for the last 2 versions + the current one, don't know where the |
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> FreeBSD people draw the line. |
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We still need to decide upon the exact implementations of backporting |
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etc. I would think that we would support at least a year of releases |
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with security backports. This will however be a thing for the long run |
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and will be announced at the time. |
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> Again though, Kudos. I'm feeling some renewed enthusiasm for Gentoo |
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> stirring in me now. |
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We are not yet at the endpoint with more static releases, but we strive |
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to be a good distro for people with a need for stability too. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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