[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

David W. Hodgins davidwhodgins at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 07:53:38 CET 2012


On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:55:22 -0400, Manuel Hiebel <manuel at hiebel.eu> wrote:

> Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 à 14:47 +0200, Sander Lepik a écrit :
>> > According to sophie it's not a new package:
>> > http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/810fca5bd939c8e4a6858a5711c5200f
>> >
>> Yeah, i take some of my words back. But there is another problem -
>> 0.6.0 seems to be in
>> mdv2010.2. So upgrade path from Mandriva is broken.
> Do we support upgrade from mandriva backport ? I'am not sure.
> (also maybe we should not look anymore what they are doing...
> and remember that the desktop support is eol:
> http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/lifecycle/ )

I meant to raise this topic a few days ago, but got busy with
other things.

My understanding was that Magea 1 supported updating from Mandriva
2010.2 + Contrib + PLF-Free.

There were several updates submitted to qa a few days ago, that are
only available in backports in Mdv 2010.2.

If we start accepting those under the exceptions rule, that allows
packages that were present in Mdv 2010.2 but missing in Mageia 1,
I'm very concerned that we could run into a lot more bug 2317
problems, which would be very difficult to avoid.

Either we'll have to rewrite our dependency checking scripts to
figure out which packages need to be linked from Core Release to
Core Updates (not simple), or link everything in Core Release to
Core Updates, or change Core Release to be tagged as an update
medium, which would have a massive impact on cpu usage for mgaapplet.

See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4814
for example.

Opinions?

Regards, Dave Hodgins


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