On 09/15/2015 09:08 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> A. Things that I care about keeping up to date are always moving too >> slowly. >> >> B. Things that I care about keeping stable are always moving too quickly. >> >> C. Things that I don't care about shouldn't bother me by having bugs, >> security holes, changes in interface or functionality, or security >> updates. >> >> D. And, for every value of "I", each set of _things_ is unique. > > Shoot, not just for every value of "I", for every combination of "I" and > "this system". I have RHEL/CentOS systems where customer X wants new > PHP but old MySQL, and customer Y wants stable PHP but new MariaDB. > This is actually where I think COPR and Fedora merge nicely. The Fedora build/release model lends itself a bit easier to the fewer updates model. The COPR build model lends itself to having the latest version of a package available for all releasees. I'm starting to make use of this myself by building certain packages that I want up to date everywhere in COPR and enabling those repos on my systems. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
