[App_rpt-users] A little confusion regarding the X86 Downloads

[Tim Sawyer]

RC1 is the latest release per N4IRS.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Jeremy Utley <jerutley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all!
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> As I reinstall my hub node after it got compromised this morning, I find
> myself a little confused at just which download option I should use for an
> amd64 architecture machine.
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> The site seems to recommend DIAL RC1, but RC **usually** means Release
> Candidate – meaning it’s not quite ready for prime time, but getting close
> to release.  I would not usually consider a “RC” release to be the
> recommended release under any circumstances.  The other problem comes from
> looking at the file modification dates on the dvswitch.org server:
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> The RC1 file – amd64-i386-DIAL-RC1.tar.gz – is dated Nov 15, 2016
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> The other file – dial-allstar-netinstall.iso – is dated Jan 22, 2017
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> So it **seems** that the RC1 is older than the other one, while still
> being the recommended install – but the name would not tend to agree, as
> the RC should be a candidate for release as a newer version, so should be
> newer than the existing “stable” version – and the stable version should be
> the recommended download – or at least this is how it would work in most
> open source projects.
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> What am I missing?  And once installed, is there any danger in using the
> Debian “apt-get update” command to update the packages for the underlying
> Linux OS to their newest versions?
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> Thanks,
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> Jeremy, NQ0M
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