[OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:56 PM Yassine Chaouche <
a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz> wrote:

> Le 5/4/21 à 2:34 PM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss a écrit :
> > Upgrades of Ubuntu LTS break more than OI on my server and without any
> > possibility of rollback to a previous boot environment...
> >> Upgrades != updates.
> > Hm, what is the difference?:) Rgds, Toomas
>
> Well you can *update* packages and remain in same OS version. Or,
> you can *upgrade* to next OS version, for example from Ubuntu 16
> to Ubuntu 17. In that case yes, breaks happen, and most users
> prefer to simply reinstall instead of upgrading, which they
> consider cleaner.
>

Yes and sometimes it does not feel like it is 2021 ;)

>
> -- Yassine
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