On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:13:00 -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote:
Your #5 is:
"That means that when resources are constrained, something gets clipped, and the logical starting place is to start with the oldest stuff."
Sounds good to me! So let's look at the facts:
openSUSE 11.3: 1.5 years old, and is a SUSE distribution
RHEL 4: 7 years old, and is not a SUSE distribution
My simple question is: why openSUSE 11.3 before (for example) RHEL 4? What are the underlying priorities that resulted in that choice?
I couldn't tell you since I'm not privy to the business information. But at a guess, it's not based on age but number of releases. RHEL6 IIRC is the current release, and for customers running older releases, SUSE has an incentive to support them because they would like nothing better than to migrate those RH customers to SLES. By including RHEL4/5/6 in OBS, that lets custom packages those RHEL customers are building to be built cross-distribution making migration easier. But that's just a guess based on what I know/knew from when I was at Novell. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org