[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

andre999 andre999mga at laposte.net
Wed Jun 27 20:05:22 CEST 2012


nicolas vigier a écrit :
> 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 ?
>    
If you are talking about the packages themselves, of course _backports 
packages_ should be tagged as backports, and regular update packages as 
updates.
However talking about _backport repos_, exactly how we tag them is 
arbitrary.
Although obviously backports are updates relative to the initial release 
in question, so it is not unreasonable to tag the backport repos as updates.

-- 

André



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