[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 28 juin 2011 à 09:55 +1200, John a écrit :
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:17:22 +0100
> Colin Guthrie wrote:

> > That said, a GUI which detected that certain packages have come from
> > backports and offers and easy mechanism to "switch" back to the older
> > one from release or updates would, IMO, be a plus.
> 
> Rpms from Tainted have 'tainted' in the filename - why not do the same for
> backports? Surely that would make their identification a little simpler?

Detection is not that hard. If the release is superior to the one in
release/update, this is a backport. That's trivial from a conception
point of view.

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Michael Scherer