Re: The next level of Custom Debian Distributions
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On 02-05-2005 15:34, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 02-05-2005 14:09, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Knut Yrvin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> * Sarge installation of Skolelinux from scratch
>>>>
>>>> Today it's possible to use, and maintain a Sarge based
>>>> Skolelinux installed from scratch with some adjusting. Security
>>>> patches is available.
>
>
>>> For a school starting (moreorless) from scratch with Skolelinux,
>>> is this the recommended approach now?
>
>
> I believe it is _not_ recommended for schools.
>
> And I am not sure what is meant by "security patches is available -
> Debian does _not_ yet officially provide security maintainance of
> sarge!
For those not subscribed to debian-devel-announce@, as of now sarge _is_
officially security-maintained:
On 03-05-2005 21:46, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Joey Schulze of the security team has given the thumbs-up for
> official security support for sarge as of the time of the freeze.
> Which is now.
Of interest is also Steve's very next paragraph, pretty much saying
similar things as I did about not yet using this for schools yet:
> With security support in place, adventurous users can begin testing
> the upgrade path from woody to sarge. Their feedback will be used
> for further bugfixing of packages, and to start preparing release
> notes. Currently, this is tempered by known bug #278495, which
> affects perl when upgrading on a sizable percentage of systems. We
> hope this bug will be addressed soon, so that we can start getting
> good upgrade reports in ASAP.
I recommend that Skolelinux only officially recommend using officially
released Skolelinux, and that any interim testing releases (or worse:
direct use of the ever-changing testing and unstable package
repositories) is used at own risk - including the risk of unpleasant
surprises (like configuration tweaks overwritten or packages removed)
when upgrading to the next official release of Skolelinux.
- Jonas
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