CentOS and v5.6

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:16:48PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Joe Chasan cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> 
> but to be fairer to the sites you sold 5.6 to already, the change should
> have happened with the move to 5.7, not mid 5.6 when customers are now stuck
> with bugs and no easy fix in sight.  i don't recall the exact date when
> 5.6.0 originally came out (2005/2006), but i'd wager 2.3.x was current
> at the time.

Depends what you mean by current.  Lots of glibc 2.3 using dists were
mid-lifecycle, average cycle being 5yrs.

Bottom line is that if they won't or can't compile static binaries, with
the advent of VMWare, and now the -free- VirtualBox, there's no reason not
to keep a dist using each library revision handy for just this sort of
thing.  Hell, other products release RPMs and/or DEBs by platform, and even
platform/version/bits.

I wholly agree about changing mid-version.  If they're doing that insane
new four point-level versioning, they really should make sure those are
sacrosanct.  It's one thing if they're not making a big deal out of their
versioning/pricing model.  Make it the issue they are, customers WILL take
issue over getting the shaft.

mark->
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