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The worst part of LTS is that it only applies to the OS itself. Security updates for applications actually running on it (e.g. Apache) expire after a considerab
by gargravarr 9y ago
The worst part of LTS is that it only applies to the OS itself. Security updates for applications actually running on it (e.g. Apache) expire after a considerably shorter period of time. We found this out after an internal vote between Ubuntu and CentOS. We'd have picked the latter if we'd known.
You can run `ubuntu-support-status` to determine what packages are currently supported.
- manaskarekar 9y agoThat's a nice command to know although it gave me the following: Support status summary of 'acomputer': You have 12 packages (0.8%) supported until January 2017 (9m) I guess the dates are hardcoded when the distribution was launched. (I'm on 16.04). Still a good over all indicator I suppose.
- soneil 9y agoI don't believe it's hardcoded, it's provided in the package list from the repo. eg, "apt-cache show apache2 | grep ^Supported".
- rlpb 9y agoEssentially, that is hardcoded. The package list (ie. apt cache) does not change after release. It cannot, because of mirror expectations and of course because it ends up on the images. Updates go through a separate updates pocket. Essentially the "Supported" field cannot be updated for all packages without issuing an update for all packages, which would require all users to download all packages again to get the new versions of each of them.
- rlpb 9y agoThis is not accurate. Apache is supported for security updates for the entire LTS period in all current stable LTS releases, for example. If "ubuntu-support-status" is telling you otherwise, that's a bug. Packages in main are security supported by Canonical. Packages in universe are security supported by anyone who wants to contribute acceptable fixes.