[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 02:54:59 CET 2010

Yann Ciret a écrit :
+> Le 29/11/2010 15:44, Dexter Morgan a écrit :
+>    
+>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Jerome Quelin<jquelin at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>>      
+>>> On 10/11/28 22:12 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>>>        
+>>>> So the mirror medias accordingly to all comments so far would be a simple:
+>>>>
+>>>> * core
+>>>>    - enabled by default
+>>>>    - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
+>>>>    - only GPL stuff
+>>>>    - must be selfcontained
+>>>>          
+>> I liked the main/contrib separation.
+>> Main was officially supported + sec updates and with only core this
+>> means a lot more work/support.
+>>
+>>      
+> I dislike the main/contrib separation in some case.
+> The first example is with Mozilla Thunderbird packages. Some extension
+> packages are in contrib. So each time thunderbird received security
+> update, the update cannot be installed because of non automatically
+> rebuild of his contrib package. And each time I see a bug report of user
+> asking a manual rebuilt. With only one core media, this situation will
+> disapear (I hope).
+>    
+Unlikely.  This problem is not at all related to separate repositories.
+
+Rather that one package was updated, and an optional installed module 
+was not.
+The fact that the module is optional is the key point.
+The installer should be flexible enough to give a warning in this case, 
+and ask if you wish to continue the installation.
+As well, in the case of Thunderbird, it is almost certain that the 
+installed module was in fact compatible with newer version of 
+Thunderbird.  (A security problem may directly impact Thunderbird or the 
+module, but highly unlikely both packages.)
+Rpm tags should have been set so that Thunderbird would recognize that 
+the module was appropriate in the newer version.
+So in sum, this was probably only a packaging problem.  Whatever the 
+repository.
+
+Note that if you install generic (not distro specific) Mozilla products, 
+extensions can be added directly from within the application.  I suspect 
+that this works the same with Mandriva versions, in which case packaging 
+of Thunderbird should probably be done without any requirements for 
+optional modules.
+
+>> the other part ( non free + tainted ) seems OK for me
+>>
+>>      
+> Me too
+>    
+
+Agreed.
+Except I would use the more neutral "restricted" rather than "tainted".
+"tainted" sounds like one should never install such a package, whereas 
+it is intended for packages more at risk to have legal problems in some 
+countries.
+
+