[OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 3 04:51:07 PDT 2014


On Friday, 3 October 2014 at 11:31:07 UTC, eles wrote:
> The former attempt stability (because all packages are tested 
> together, along with their interactions), while the latter 
> attempt cutting-edge software (you update software as it gets 
> produced).

This generally true but not entirely true. Rolling release model 
also implies testing of package inter-operation but any 
guarantees only apply to versions that match specific repository 
snapshot - most problems arise from trying to update some of 
packages but not all. At least this is the case for Arch.


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