9 May
2006
9 May
'06
10:56 a.m.
Quoting Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com>:
Unless I'm missing something, RHEL will have the same problem when they do the next full release that contains version-level updates to applications.
RHEL 3.x no. RHEL 4.x maybe. RHEL 5.x who knows.
They can either change the code to be backwards compatible, or provide an automatic conversion, or (worst case) just try to document the process well and alert everyone to the issues.
In any case, it isn't as blind as someone doing the upgrade now on their own.
The difference is just that fedora doesn't backport bugfixes into the old versions for so long.
There are a lot more differences than that!
-- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin
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