About ubuntu server packages

[Jim Tarvid]

I am not sure what one should expect from LTS (long term support). Bug fixes
and security patches certainly. Backports are another matter. Does
everything get backported? When?  If everything is backported as it evolves,
it is more like a perpetual beta instead of long term support.

I moved two servers from Edgy back to Dapper LTS based on the "promise" of
LTS. What I got was security patches backported to an intermediate version
of PHP. That makes sense as some sort of compromise of syntax and security.
As with all compromises, the result was not totally pleasing to either point
of view.

PHP and MySQL are my "bread and butter"  and we have an organizational
commitment to run the latest versions of both if at all possible. I
acknowledge this is a thinly veiled manifestation of "bleeding edge
disease". Most of our servers are now running Feisty and all will migrate to
Gutsy. If I had non Internet facing servers Dapper LTS would make some
sense.

Jim Tarvid

On 7/25/07, Joao Inacio <jcinacio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/25/07, Soren Hansen <soren at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:20:00PM +0200, carlopmart wrote:
> > > I would like to migrate my centos 4 servers to ubuntu LTS 8.04 when it
> > > will be released to build xen robust servers using redhat cluster
> > > suite.  But I find a problem: how can I see which package have 5 years
> > > support and not 3?? Why ubuntu server doesn't use separate repos like
> > > rhel does??
> >
> > They are separated. Only the LTS releases have 5 years or support and
> > generally only the packages in the main component.  Can you specify what
> > it is exactly you find unclear?
> >
>
> Unclear is the fact that because both the desktop LTS releases (3
> years support) and server (5 years support) share the same (main)
> repos, there isn't a clear and easy way to tell what support term a
> certain package has once installed.
>
>
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> Joao Inacio
>
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