[Mageia-dev] Update of backport, policy proposal

Fri Jun 24 15:41:13 CEST 2011

Le 24/06/2011 13:42, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2011/6/24 José Jorge<jjorge at free.fr>:
+>> Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:15:03, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+>>> Last solution, declare that cherry picking is not supported, or that
+>>> people are on their own, and explain the reason. However, people have
+>>> been asking this, and recommend this. This would also be against a goal
+>>> of having confidence in the backports.
+>>>
+>> I have always used backports in a total way : if I want latest software
+>> against stability, I take them all. Think about little dependencies that still
+>> exist (vlc + ffmpeg, etc).
+>>
+>> So I would say Mageia has two update modes :
+>>
+>> - end user (security) mode (updates)
+>> - power user (let's try everything) mode (updates+backports)
+>>
+>> Each user  will recognise himself in one of the two modes.la
+> So, where do I find myself in this scenario?
+>
+> I do not use backports in general, they are disabled.
+> A new version of foo is coming in in cauldron and I want to use it in Mageia 1.
+> A friendly packager builds a backport of this new version of foo for Mageia 1.
+> I enable backports, do "urpmi foo" and I get the version from
+> backports including dependencies.
+> After that I disable backports.
+>
+> This is the way backports have been used by many users in Mandriva.
+> And (BTW) this is the exact meaning of the word, a version is
+> backported from a newer distrib-version or cooker/cauldron to an older
+> distrib-version or current stable version.
+I use a few backported package on a Mdv install (please, don't lapidate
+me, I have 2 mageia cauldron at home). To easily update them, I have
+made a small and ugly bash script.
+It can propably being optimised, clean, etc. I run it manually times to
+times .
+
+Regards
+
+[jehane at mdvbox]$ cat update-backports.sh
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Add here your package, for each repository
+# Main backports package
+pkge_main="firefox"
+# Contrib backports package
+pkge_contrib="fusioninventory-agent";
+
+echo "Script for updating package present in non-activated repositery"
+echo "Only for distribution using urpmi"
+echo ""
+echo "List of checked package"
+echo $pkge_main
+echo $pkge_contrib
+echo ""
+
+
+# Must be launch as root
+if [ "$UID" -ne 0 ]; then
+     echo "Need to be root"
+     exit $E_NOTROOT
+fi
+
+# Updating repos
+echo "Updating backports repository"
+urpmi.update "Main Backports"
+urpmi.update "Contrib Backports"
+
+echo "Updating package"
+for package in `echo $pkge_main` ;
+     do urpmi --searchmedi "Main Backports" $package
+     done
+
+for package in `echo $pkge_contrib` ;
+     do urpmi --searchmedia "Contrib Backports" $package
+     done
+
+
+-- 
+Marianne Lombard (Jehane)
+Mageia User - Mageia french translation team
+Inside every fat girl, there is a thin girl waiting to get out (and a
+lot of chocolate) - Terry Pratchett
+