[Mageia-dev] Changing default media names

Sun Nov 20 21:59:19 CET 2011

Op zondag 20 november 2011 21:18:01 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+[...]
+> Some ideas :
+> - change the naming scheme but translate it into human readable names in UI
+> - Implement item 40 for mageia 2 specs : "really use media tags in the
+> package managers, CLI and GUI: testing, backport, update, etc. Currently,
+> apart from a hack for media which name contain “backport”, the nature of
+> the media is not used in urpmi and rpmdrake whereas it could be used to
+> improve usability a lot. Instead of talking about core-updates,
+> core-updates_testing, etc., talk about the root media (“core”, “non-free”,
+> “tainted”) and let users choose whether they want to use updates,
+> backports, updates_testing,
+> backports_testing flavors of this root media." I haven't had the time to
+> write a complete spec for that, but if needed I could try to put it higher
+> on my TODO list.
+> 
+> Best regards
+> 
+> Samuel Verschelde
+
+i agree.
+
+Also, one problem i see is that naming them like the paths, will give strange 
+errors if you have more than one repos like that.
+
+One idea could be: have --*media tags also match the local paths:
+- cauldron/x86_64/core/release
+- ...
+
+also tab completion doesn't work well with all the spaces, definately not if 
+you want to specify more repos...
+
+