[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport? (was: Finalizing update process)

Thu Jun 9 11:27:25 CEST 2011

Op donderdag 09 juni 2011 11:14:21 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> As I upgrade my various machines (I only really have about 5, so not
+> that many) I'm running into a few packages that are missing (this is
+> inevitable).
+> 
+> Nothing major just little things like trac and supybot etc.
+> 
+> What is the best way to add these packages to the v1 tree?
+> 
+> Using backports seems a little odd as this is "unsupported" and we don't
+> really want to encourage using it as a means to get the missing packages.
+> 
+> release is obviously frozen so no go there.
+> 
+> The only real option is updates, but that should obviously have some QA
+> on it.
+> 
+> Perhaps we need to have some kind of exemption to get these missing
+> packages added?
+> 
+> Does anyone have any opinions on this?
+> 
+> Col
+
+tbh, i had been thinking about this too, but it would kind of defeat the 
+updates reasoning?
+
+otoh, perhaps a missing package is also a bugfix... maybe we could file bug 
+reports for missing packages and go through the updates route...
+
+personally, i would like updates for it, but it might be against updates 
+protocol and it will likely add extra strain on the QA team?
+