On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:48:14PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: > On 27-Aug-1998, Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 08:05:39PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: > > > The problem is, r1 patch CDs aren't worth much when r2 patch CDs > > > come out -- they will have all the r1 patches plus more. Anyone who > > > wants a patch CD would not settle for anything but the latest (why else > > > would you buy a patch CD if not to get the latest fixes). > > > > > > So you're really just going to delay the problem one revision. > > > > Realy? > > We build a CD-set, after 2-3 month (or every month) we make a patch-cd with > > all new stable packages, after 3-5 month we make a new CD-set. > > Yes, really. > > If you build one every month then the previous months patch CD is worth > very little, because it doesn't contain a complete system, just a bunch > of patches, which are outdated anyway. The whole reason you would buy > a patch CD is because it is up-to-date. If there is a more up-to-date > one on the market, your patch CD isn't worth much anymore. > > So after the first month, there's just a different problem for silver > vendors -- outdated patch CDs. > > Then, when you release the new release, there are two problems -- > outdated patch CDs and outdated base CDs. I don't belief, that a monthly patch-cd is a case for the silver vendors. only one patch-cd between the set's are a case for the silver vendors. and BTW: the cd-set are not outdated. You can make with the bo-cd-set a very nice Debian-Linux on a computer.... > > in the first case, we have only one patch-cd between the set's. no problem > > (I prefer this case) > > in the other case (patch-cd every month), we have no silver cd. This cd are > > gold cd. > > It doesn't solve the problem of out-of-date CDs. It does. > It is nice in that you can get binary+source fixes on one CD instead > of 2 or 3. > > However I don't think a significant number of people are clamouring > for this problem to be solved (yet). We (or/and the vendors) must chip the source. They must make a source CD. (see GPL) Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux »Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !«
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