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I believe that this +</I>><i> > is achieved in Mandriva, because plf is greater than mdv. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That's abusing release tag and it work by pure chance ( ie, had the plf +</I>><i> decided to be called the guillomovitch liberation front, it would not +</I>><i> have worked ). And this is quite inflexible, since people will always +</I>><i> have plf packages, leading to users adding some rpm in skip.list with a +</I>><i> regexp. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This doesn't make much sense to treat tainted rpm as update to core, +</I>><i> this is not the same notion. But we cannot express this in urpmi for the +</I>><i> moment, as this would requires some way to say "if you need to install +</I>><i> something, prefer this source rather than this one". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We can imagine a priority system, or we can simply say that if there is +</I>><i> the same rpm on 2 media, we ask to the user ( except this would requires +</I>><i> IMHO a better system than the current path based one to see what is in a +</I>><i> rpm, but that's a rather long proposal to make ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But you are right this another set of issues to solve for dual life +</I>><i> packages. +</I> +after sleeping on this, i've had this idea: + +why don't we rename packages in tainted? +keeping them in the same name, perhaps has issues with search engines, (ie: +which version do you get?) + +i proposed renaming packages in tainted,(but not the release tag). + +would it be a good compromise if we named packages: + +<orig_packagename>-tainted-<version>-<release> ? + +the benefit of this could be adding an Obsoletes and Provides on the original +package with the identical version. + +for building, i may have this solution: + +%tainted(%_optional_feature1 %optional_feature2 %optional_feature3) + +this would allow the buildbot to look for %tainted and if it does, it could +rebuild it for tainted and add the particulars itself. this would simplify the +whole plf/tainted thing easily. and since all 4 rpms are being built at the +same time, you have no srpm problem either. + +WDYT? +</PRE> + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002671.html">[Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002665.html">[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2662">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2662">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2662">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2662">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |