[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mercredi 27 juin 2012 16:08:10 nicolas vigier a écrit :
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:
> >>> I would favour tagging backports as update repos, so that in the event
> >>> of a newer backport for security or bug fixes, that it will be
> >>> automatically presented with other updates.
> >> 
> >> No.
> >> as the update applet currently works it would show the backport as
> >> an update even if you dont have an earlier backport installed,
> >> defeating the purpose of having separate /updates vs /backports
> > 
> > This is conditional on first modifying the update tools, as suggested
> > next.
> > A backport should only update an already installed backport.
> > (Similarly for nonfree and tainted, if that is not already the case.)
> 
> We should not change the behaviour of medias tagged as update repo. If
> we want a different behaviour for backports then we should tag those
> medias as backport, not update.

Fully agreed