[arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Ali H. Caliskan
<ali.h.caliskan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that
> goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum,
> I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I
> personally think Arch is stable and well maintained compared to other big
> distros, but that's a rolling release stability, that lasts only few days or
> weeks. What I would like Arch developers is to extend the rolling release
> into a snapshot release of an entire list of officially maintained packages,
> comprising both core and extra branches. At least it would be a great way of
> using Arch for 5 to 6 moths and then upgrade to a next snapshot release. I'm
> not talking about stable releases, just a snapshot of a rolling state.
> Snapshot releases does also benefit the natural need of closing bugs. Not to
> mention, it does make it easy to maintain orphaned packages as well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ali
>

Hi, it has been discussed many times in the past. Bottom line is, if
you want to do that go ahead, the developers wont help you. Meaning
this will not be an official project.
See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Stable for info
about the last time this was attempted.
& good luck

-- 
Greg