[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659)

Tue Jun 14 18:42:08 CEST 2011

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
+
+> Indeed, Mageia does not have the number of packagers that Fedora has.
+> However, if Mageia's _policy_ is to rather have 6-7 months old versions in
+> updates, I should probably realize that Mageia is not for me.
+
+This will ultimately be up to the people who do the stable updates. As you 
+can see from the fedora policy you quoted it is not possible to give exact 
+rules for what kind of updates will be accepted.
+
+> No, I have not, and never will use any repository called "backports". When a
+> newer stable  release of a distro is available, I should update to it if
+> updates I need are not pushed into Release N-1 "updates" (even if that release
+> is officially still supported with security patches), but again, "backports"
+> as Mandriva and Mageia are seeing them -- i.e. backporting
+> from  Cooker/Cauldron, not from "updates/testing" nor from "Release N+1"
+> -- does not fit my Zen.
+
+They will come from backports_testing I'd think. Likely packages will go 
+from cauldron where they are tested a bit into backports_testing, and 
+finally to backports.
+
+Would this 'backports' repository section sound better to you if it is 
+renamed e.g. to 'rolling' ? (:
+
+
+     Christiaan
+