On 19 Jan 2019, at 8:50, Antoine Joubert via frog wrote:
Hi,
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I was wondering, what is the difference between the https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/frr-6.0.2 release and the https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases/tag/debian%2Ffrr-6.0.2-1 release ?
The debian package provided for the first one seems to be the 6.0.2-0 version. Is the second one newer ? If so, why are there no package download available ?
In general, approximately no difference. The frr-6.0.2 is the current latest official FRR release. The Debian one is part of the work to get FRR into the debian distribution and should follow the official release. In practice however, debian maintainers and debian packages are frequently with some changes/patches in comparison to official releases on any package. In the case of FRR, we try to avoid any changes as far as possible, but as part of the testing and getting FRR into debian, there is a good chance for a few changes in the near term (which would then be integrated into further FRR releases whenever possible). Not sure if this explains it, but in general: - Use our official releases (which has packages on GitHub) until the FRR release is part of the debian packages. - Once we have them in there (you’ll hear an announcement), then we may stop providing debian packages ourself and you would get packages from the debian package archives. - Ignore the differences. If there would be anything important, then we would make a new version anyway. Hope this explains it somehow Regards, Martin Winter