Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 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. It is far from impossible, I do it all the time, but it does need a lot more care. Once OpenSSL gets banished this pain will subside a bit, but it will probably never go away. 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. /Benny -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
