Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:27:58PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Installing updates without checking would be very common. With the SSH
> update I just went and installed it on all of our machines. If I had known
> it would break so many things I would have been more careful (and saved
> myself a lot of grief). (basically, password-less ssh1 keys were no longer
> used automatically, breaking many scripts).
>
> Next time I see an update that upgrades to a completely new version I will
> definitly be more careful.
It is important to read the advisories before installing the updates when
stability is important. If there are special instructions, warnings, etc.
for an update, they will be in the advisory. For example, in the case of
DSA-134, it explained why we were not able to backport a fix (thanks to
OpenBSD).
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- mdz
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