[Mageia-dev] Updates and 0 release

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 28/07/11 13:11 did gyre and gimble:
> Le jeudi 28 juillet 2011 13:02:26, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>> 'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 28/07/11 09:08 did gyre and gimble:
>>> We have updates blocked by this release 0 issue, so we need a quick
>>> decision. I propose that if tomorrow nobody reacted against the
>>> proposal, it will be adopted.
>>
>> Personally, I would vote to keep it the way it is with the 0 releases.
>>
>> I'm not convinced that any of the arguments represent real world problems.
>>
>> Col
> 
> Here is a question I got yesterday, which the proposal solves, but that's not 
> a very common issue and maybe the 0 releases way works with it too :
> 
> If we had imported it before mageia 1 was released, we would have had 
> cultivation-9-0.20071217.6.mga1 in mageia 1 (a pre-release).
> 
> Then suppose we want to update it to the final 9 release in both cauldron and 
> mageia 1 : we have cultivation-9-1.mga1 in cauldron. But what release should 
> we use in updates for mageia 1 ?
> 
> cultivation-9-0.1.mga1 doesn't work because cultivation-9-0.1.mga1 < 
> cultivation-9-0.20071217.6.mga1
> 
> Is there a way to do it right with a 0 release ?

Yeah, I concede that this particular scenario would cause problems :s

Fair point, well made :D

Col

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