On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:16:42 +0200, cagsm wrote:
I mean, logical reasoning would tell me, that if a vanilla release resulting in as iso was doing kinda fine, and patches in contained packes (rpms) were later sorted out, "simply" replacing lower versioned number (small version number increases/patches/fixes) inside the iso with the latest patched versions from the update repo, would still give me a stable iso as the updates and patches never jump that much as to lose functionality, or change fundamentally. after all they are called patches hotfixs and updates.
That's not really necessarily the case though - you can get regressions introduced in updated packages, which would result in problems being introduced in an updated release iso. When there's something serious (and I can remember it happening once in the past), a remastered DVD might be released to address an issue that was missed. But to make that part of the normal release process "just in case" some esoteric/rare hardware combination has trouble booting the ISO is not IMHO a good use of resources. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org