[FROG] Difference between releases

Antoine Joubert antoine at joubert.ninja
Sun Jan 20 15:09:20 EST 2019


Thanks for the reply !

I’ll stick with the packages provided on GitHub until FRR becomes available in Debian, which hopefully will be soon !

Regards,

Antoine Joubert

> On 19 Jan 2019, at 21:09, Martin Winter <mwinter at opensourcerouting.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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




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