[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Update distros JSON files to always point to a valid URL

[Crístian Viana]

Am 07-03-2014 06:37, schrieb Royce Lv:
> I would prefer to provide users with stable release rather than latest 
> build ones.
> So what about 
> http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/12.1/livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-2012.1.iso 
> ?
There is no such concept in Gentoo. After you install any image and run 
the equivalent of "yum update", the system behaves exactly the same 
regardless of which image it was installed from. From inside its own 
package manager, you can choose whether you want stable or unstable 
releases for some (or all) packages. The weekly releases are like 
checkpoints with updated packages so you do not need to download a lot 
of updates after installing them (like if you install that 2012 image 
and download all updated packages released in the last 15 months).

That URL you provided above is marked as a special release ("End of 
World Edition", because they were making fun of that Mayan theory about 
the end of the world in December 2012...). It is not, in any way, more 
stable/friendlier/anything than the weekly releases. It was just a 
celebration/marketing thing.