On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:13 -0400, Brian K. White wrote: [Rolling release concerns...] Ditto. I have an openSUSE 10.0 system in a DMZ. A security audit is complaining that some services are running too-old code. Like Apache, or openssh, or imap to name a few. I thought I might obtain the latest source RPMS and see if I could compile those on the system. Of course, I do not have the needed -devel versions of many packages installed. And finding those for a 10.0 system will be fun. As a result, I will probably have to re-install the OS. But what to choose? I was actually considering Tumbleweed. But your arguments made perfect sense. I have been wondering what the mechanism is to choose which packages will become a part of Tumbleweed. I was guessing that using Tumbleweed would require that you constantly install any Tumbleweed updates as they become available so that your system does not get too different and thus difficult to update. So, at any given point in time, there is the 'current' Tumbleweed, and updated packages must be added in some pre-defined order. I wonder what happens if you want to install a previously-not-installed package that was added to Tumbleweed at some other point than you are adding it to your system?
But I would not touch Tumbleweed as it exists right now with a ten foot pole.
I suspect I will be on your end of the pole. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org