[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

Mon Jun 27 23:55:59 CEST 2011

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:17:22 +0100
+Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 25/06/11 23:16 did gyre and gimble:
+> >> we
+> >> always say that backports should mainly be cherry picked, but not
+> >> enabled all the time... so how does installing a new version of e.g.
+> >> wine break the user's system when he can easily back out that rpm?
+> > 
+> > I a not sure that most people realize they can revert. Maybe a easier
+> > interface to do that could be offered ( along maybe with a tool that
+> > send feedback on why it did downgrade it ? ).
+> 
+> I've seen various ppa-purge commands being dished out for custom PPAs on
+> Ubuntu. It looks like quite a nice idea, but only really applies for
+> individual use archives (e.g. help us test the development version of
+> $foo), not a general purpose one like "backports".
+> 
+> That said, a GUI which detected that certain packages have come from
+> backports and offers and easy mechanism to "switch" back to the older
+> one from release or updates would, IMO, be a plus.
+
+Rpms from Tainted have 'tainted' in the filename - why not do the same for
+backports? Surely that would make their identification a little simpler?
+
+John NZ
+