[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

[andré]

nicolas vigier a écrit :
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote:
>>      
>>>> I think you misunderstood the concept proposed, we are not talking about
>>>> replacing cooker/cauldron, just merging updates and backports for the
>>>> released version.
>>>>          
>>> And then you run "urpmi --auto-select" on your server, and all your web
>>> sites stop working because php was updated to a new version which is not
>>> 100% compatible with the previous one ...
>>>        
And you wouldn't appreciate a little excitement from time to time ;)
>> Hmm, two things, actually three:
>>
>> 1) I'd never use Mandriva on a server, because of the short support
>> period, a server OS requires at least 4-5 years support lifecycles
>> (I'm not talking about MES here, just the normal Mandriva variants)
>>      
> But you can still use it while it is supported, and upgrade to a newer
> realease when it's no more supported.
>    
But he doesn't like all the work of upgrading to a newer release ...
>> 2) from my experience "urpmi --auto-select" does that anyway, it doesn't
>> seem to differentiate between updates and backports (unlike drakrpm that
>> correctly ignores backports when checking for updates)
>>      
> That's why backports repository is not enabled by default.
>    
And in any case, that could be fixed
>> 3) I mentioned earlier that the packager would need to use good
>> judgement and not include major incompatible version changes
>>      
> There is always some small (and sometimes big) incompatibilities with
> new versions. Not always known even by the developers. How should the
> packager know about all the incompatibilities ?
>    
We can all use a little spice in life -- can't we :)

- André (andre999)