Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> said: > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 13:05 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > It's layered, but from what I understand, an upper layer depends on a > > specific build of a lower layer. So using the up-thread example, if > > there's a security update to zlib, the lower layer can rebuild to pick > > it up, but until the upper layer (like say LO) also rebuilds on top of > > the new lower layer, they'll be running on the old version. > > No, I don't believe that's accurate. It's more of a major/minor thing. > The 'lower layer' can be updated with bug and security fixes without > any rebuild or change needed to 'upper layers'. You only need a rebuild > if the 'lower layer' is doing a "major" incompatible update (this is > something the lower layer is in charge of defining).
Okay, that's good to know. I thought I got the layer description from this list, but maybe I just misread (or read someone else's mistaken understanding). Sorry for any confusion. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
