[Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

Fri Feb 18 14:42:02 CET 2011

Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:47 +0000, James Kerr a écrit :
+
+> If there are two packages, one in core and another in tainted, then 
+> doesn't urpmi need a way to recognise that the tainted package is newer 
+> than (an update to) the corresponding core package? I believe that this 
+> is achieved in Mandriva, because plf is greater than mdv.
+
+That's abusing release tag and it work by pure chance ( ie, had the plf
+decided to  be called the guillomovitch liberation front, it would not
+have worked ). And this is quite inflexible, since people will always
+have plf packages, leading to users adding some rpm in skip.list with a
+regexp. 
+
+This doesn't make much sense to treat tainted rpm as update to core,
+this is not the same notion. But we cannot express this in urpmi for the
+moment, as this would requires some way to say "if you need to install
+something, prefer this source rather than this one". 
+
+We can imagine a priority system, or we can simply say that if there is
+the same rpm on 2 media, we ask to the user ( except this would requires
+IMHO a better system than the current path based one to see what is in a
+rpm, but that's a rather long proposal to make ). 
+
+But you are right this another set of issues to solve for dual life
+packages.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+