[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

[John]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:17:22 +0100
Colin Guthrie wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 25/06/11 23:16 did gyre and gimble:
> >> we
> >> always say that backports should mainly be cherry picked, but not
> >> enabled all the time... so how does installing a new version of e.g.
> >> wine break the user's system when he can easily back out that rpm?
> > 
> > I a not sure that most people realize they can revert. Maybe a easier
> > interface to do that could be offered ( along maybe with a tool that
> > send feedback on why it did downgrade it ? ).
> 
> I've seen various ppa-purge commands being dished out for custom PPAs on
> Ubuntu. It looks like quite a nice idea, but only really applies for
> individual use archives (e.g. help us test the development version of
> $foo), not a general purpose one like "backports".
> 
> 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?

John NZ