On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:36:22PM -0500, Thom May wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 12:15 -0600, Kyle Cordes wrote:
> >> I'm looking to install Puppet on a pile of Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04
> >> machines; apt-get in the box will get me versions 0.24.1 and 0.24.4
> >
> > You might want to prod the Ubuntu maintainer of puppet to be a little
> > more aggressive pushing updates.
> >
> Ubuntu and Debian have different policy to Fedora/RHEL, in that fixes
> are back ported.

For Debian, only security fixes are backported.  Bugfixes are not
backported - you either live with the bug or find a way to get install a
more recent version that has a fix.

There are good reasons for this but I won't waste your time with them
unless it's really of interest.


-- 
Bruce

I object to intellect without discipline.  I object to power without
constructive purpose. -- Spock

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