[csw-maintainers] Preview of the new mirror structure available

[Philip Brown]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> The larger customers of ours have own mirrors from where they install.
> However, the smaller installation just subscribe to current/. When an
> inexperienced admin just wants to add a package and by error updates
> the catalog there is no way other then to update the dependencies of
> the package to be installed as there is neither an unchanged location
> for scubscription nor the old archived catalog.

and for the vast majority of customers, this is a GOOD THING! This is
a "feature", not a bug!
It is detrimental to have out of date, older versions of things.

It is only at sites where they have to be really really careful about
upgrades and changes, that this behaviour is a problem.

We should make sure that we optimize for the common best case.

We should also give mechanisms for the "picky sites" to accomplish
what they need to do from our packages. However, if we just had
regular "stable" releases again, we would accomplish this pretty well.


>  The freezes are not
> meant as replacement for stable, but as substitute to subscribe to
> in addition to current/.

Perhaps you meant "as an alternative choice to current".