[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:

> Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 14:40:
>>> Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>>>> andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 10:47:
>>
>>>>> I would favour adding the requirement that the dependancies of the
>>>>> backport must be available in the next release.  So that we would 
>>>>> expect
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is esentially stating that we cant backport any bigger version to
>>>> mga2 /backports than mga3 will havein /release wich means when we hit
>>>> version freeze for mga3, it also freezes mga2 /backports...
>>>
>>> I'm not following this point.
>>> What I mean is that if backport xx for mga1 requires yy version 12 in
>>> mga1, but yy is version 13 in mga2, we would define the requires for yy
>>> to accept versions 12 to 13 (or maybe wider).
>>
>> Point is what if you backport version 14 to mga1, and mga2 has version 13, 
>> then upgrade path breaks.
>
> No problem.  If the requirements of version 14 are present in mga2, then 
> the backport will (very likely) continue to work normally.  If the versions 
> of the required packages change, they will be updated with the upgrade.  
> Since version 13 of mga2 is less than the version 14 of the backport, it 
> won't be installed.

There is no guaranty that requirements of version 14 mga1 backports are
all available in mageia 2. If it is linked with libsomething.so.1, but
mageia 2 only has libsomething.so.2, then there is a problem.