[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fixing IPS

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 22.11.25 um 21:32 schrieb Peter Tribble:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM Goetz T. Fischer via openindiana-discuss <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:57:06 +0000 (UTC), Reginald Beardsley via
>> openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> But it meets the replication constraint.  Whatever the state of the
>> machine was, it can be
>>> reproduced.
>> well then an os with a rolling release model is just not the right thing
>> for you. rolling releases
>> are changing all the time by definition.
>> if you want fixed, reproducible states then grab an os with a "regular"
>> release schedule.
>>
> The fact that it's a rolling release is immaterial - exactly the same
> problem can occur with
> a set of fixed releases, if they are cleaned up or otherwise modified at
> any point.
>
While this is true, fixed releases will provide a natural way of 
creating and associating repositories and thus it will be more likely to 
avoid the necessity of cleanups.
Anyway OI is done by volunteers and donating money to run the 
infrastructure is only one part of a solution. In the end we need to 
find one or more volunteers that will do the work.