[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Sat Jun 11 13:14:29 CEST 2011


Le samedi 11 juin 2011 12:06:55, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > We can agree that everybody want something newer for some rpms, but few
> > people want everything to be newer ( ie, now one run backports as a
> > update media, I think ). So as much as I am against asking to users
> > questions, we must show them the choice somewhere, in a non obstrusive
> > way.
> 
> Maybe, but how would be "support" this? We must be able to reproduce a
> reported problem. This becomes complicated when we don't know what is
> installed on the user's system. A guideline for bug reporters is (or
> should be) "make sure you installed the latest updates". What would be the
> equivalent for backports? I'm afraid it should be "if you installed any
> backports, make sure you installed all backports that are relevant for
> your system". If someone has a problem with any other combination, the bug
> report might be rejected. How would QA even work when only selected
> packages are upgraded from backports, or integration testing:
> integration with what?
> 
> So the only combinations we can support are:
>    - release + updates
>    - release + updates + backports
> 
> More practical: for mga1 I have a VM that I can keep updated. For mga1
> backports I can install another VM with backports enabled. But for bugs
> reported with only selected backports installed I suppose I would have to
> install a new VM with mga1, update it, and install only those backports -
> for each bug report. But maybe I'm missing something, please explain. (:
> 

If we suppose that either updates or backports are supported (with a support 
level to be defined), the situation is simpler to me :  a good backport must 
work  with all its dependencies coming from updates or release OR it must 
explicitly require higher versions, found only in the backports media and so 
automatically pulled.

So I don't think that having picked up only certain backported packages is a 
problem for the maintainer's support. Maybe I over-simplified the situation, 
but I don't think it will be as complex as you say.

Samuel 
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