[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:

> 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.
>>    
>
> The idea is, once the tools are appropriately adjusted, to tag the backport 
> repos as update media, as in rpmdrake.  But alternately we could get the 
> update tools to automatically treat backport repos as update media for 
> backports.

backports are not updates, why should we tag them as update ?