[Mageia-sysadm] Decision needed on mgaapplet and adding Requires.

Sander Lepik sander.lepik at eesti.ee
Fri Aug 19 17:46:17 CEST 2011


19.08.2011 18:27, Thierry Vignaud kirjutas:
> A few remarks:
>
> 1) This will make MageiaUpdate wey slower
>    (quite a lot more synthesis (and bigger ones!!!) to parse,
>     quite a lot more of requires to parse/compute)
>
> 2) Even with that behaviour, we WILL STILL FAILL on some machines
>    if user has eg DVD media but not full network media
>    and thus some packages may still be missing from DVD
>
> 3) Fred Lepied, Frederic Crozat & Warly have decided to remove
>    all code that was adding full media and the like, checking for
>    missing media, ... b/c of that
>
> 4) we wouldn't cover people not upgrading mgaonline first
>
> 5) we know for a fact that copying new requires works smoothly
>     vs a new procedure to test
>
> As we are talking about an already product, I would go
> to the known to work way...
> I don't think that's the right moment to reinvent a new way to
> do updates when we already know one.
+1

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Sander



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