[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

Fri Jun 8 20:38:43 CEST 2012

Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 20:20:54, David W. Hodgins a écrit :
+> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:22:41 -0400, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> 
+wrote:
+> > I think you missed my point. If Mageia 1 "backports" has higher versions
+> > than Mageia 2 "release" (not backports), upgrade can fail because
+> > currently our tools do not take backports from the target release
+> > (mageia 2) into account when upgrading a distro.
+> 
+> In the upgrade from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia 1, it was made clear, that
+> upgrading from a system with 2010.2 Backports was not supported.  It may
+> work, but was not recommended.
+> 
+> I think we should keep the same policy for the upgrade from Mageia 1 to 2.
+> I.E.  Don't use backports if you are planning on later doing an upgrade,
+> rather then a clean install.
+> 
+> That way, Mageia 1 users who want firefox 13 can get it, without us having
+> to replace the Mageia 2 iso images with an upgraded installer, that will
+> keep backports enabled for 2, if it was enabled for 1.
+> 
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+
+Again, this is not the policy we adopted. When we defined the backports policy 
+(together, although it seems most people are just discovering it now) we said 
+that we didn't want to have backports that don't work, break a system, or 
+prevent upgrade.
+
+However, I think that for DVD upgrade without internet access this is a 
+sensible option. But the upgrader should detect the situation itself, not hope 
+that the user will read somewhere in the release notes that it's not 
+supported. 
+
+And there should be a way for those who have internet access to upgrade online 
+*with* backports too.
+
+Samuel
+