[arch] arch-stable

[Leonardo A. Gallego]

El Domingo, 10 de Diciembre de 2006 09:12, RedShift escribió:
> Hi everyone
>
> Since I have been starting my webhosting company I have also been
> seeking for a good server distribution. I have searched and looked at
> all the server type distributions on distrowatch but none of them
> appealed to me. Arch's simplicity makes it a breeze to maintain and
> debug. Not to mention all those rpm based distributions these days, but
> that is beyond the scope of this email.
>
> However, arch has one problem. It does not have a stable repository. And
> the release repo is only a snapshot of current while a lot of other
> server software (like postfix) is contained in extra.
>
> Therefore I'm calling out to people who are willing to work with me on
> an arch stable repository. Upon a new release, the packages would be
> mirrored to the arch-stable tree. From there on only packages that have
> security issues are updated. So if apache were to release 2.2.5 and the
> one in release is 2.2.4, arch-stable would *only, and only then* emit a
> new package if 2.2.4 would contain security issues that are fixed in
> 2.2.5. Thus very similar other distributions "stable", release version
> packages + critical updates.

I'm not completely sure, but I think Frugalware does take the 'pacman' mode 
into a more 'usual distro update process'. Although they dont do as you 
propose for Arch, its more or less the same.

What you propose should be quite easy to accomplish. Ignore (as in pacman) all 
installed packages until you recieve some notification about a bug/exploit, 
and upgrade that package when that happens. The thing is: you will always get 
notifications of this kind of issues, so you will end up with a "current" 
sooner or later. Maybe you will save yourself a couple of updates in the 
process, but is the extra work on keeping an eye for exploits/bugs worth 
that?

I mean, I never found one single application worth of the name 'stable', they 
always have a problem. If its not a security issue, its a bug. Thats 
nature ;)


Regards,

-- 
Leonardo A. Gallego
www.hombrepac.com.ar

Comunidad Hispana de Arch Linux
www.archlinux.com.ar