Re: Which distributions to support?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 20:21, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Thoughts?

FWIW--because i haven't really worked on this in awhile--I'm considering 
to just support Fedora the same way Core/Extras does.  While legacy 
sounds diplomatic, more than a majority of Fedora boxes will be 
upgraded to a later version.  For sure, FC1 is out the door.  The FC2 
machines I do have are probably slated for upgrade soon.

I dunno, maybe one behind Core/Extras policy; but, I don't think I'm 
going to do the full Legacy policy (1-2-3, out).  So, maybe FC2,FC3, 
and FC4.  

I've still got several rh7.3's laying around .. I need to think about 
this one first.  In my case, rh9 would actually be out the door before 
rh7.3.  But, rh7.3 is kind of nasty because you have to update core 
packages to get anything to work. Updating core packages is against a 
lot of repos policy.  So, I see sunset coming for vers <= rh9 all over 
the place.

That leaves rhel to deal with.  Not sure when RHEL5 is coming, but I 
presume supporting 2 versions is pretty decent.  Updating core is even 
more of a touchy issue on these versions.  Of course, third party repos 
are pretty touchy as well.  For support, core needs to be relatively 
unscathed.  Rhel has a much longer release than Fedora and therefore 
may have more of a tendency to gather dust. Anyway, I haven't even 
setup environments to do RHEL builds yet... :(  Probably build for 
CentOS and call it good.

Now, metadata. I'm probably going to drop apt.  md-xml supports yum and 
smart.

just some random blurbs...

take care,
-- 
-jeff