[Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

Thu Jun 21 13:25:24 CEST 2012

On 21/06/12 12:22, Sander Lepik wrote:
+> 21.06.2012 13:35, AL13N kirjutas:
+>> B. fetch dependencies only from enabled repositories
+>> Problems:
+>>  - if backports are enabled, dependencies could come from backports
+>> instead of release.
+>>
+>> Solutions for this:
+>>  - this can be prevented in various ways: even as simple as the backport
+>> packager to bump an update with stricter requires so that the backport
+>> wouldn't be fetched (_IF_ it indeed would be incompatible) AND the update
+>> could have stricter requires for that new dependency.
+> I still can't see how are you going to solve this case:
+> I have backports enabled. There are packages that are newer than the one in release. I
+> haven't installed them. Now new update requires such package that is both in release and in
+> backports. Update will pull package from enabled backports as they are newer - i didn't want
+> that.
+
+But enabling backport means that you want that, no?
+Otherwise you don't enable backports.
+
+> And you can't just submit new backport that blocks it. Older backports are still
+> there. So you can install those if new backport doesn't work for you (the same we have for
+> updates at the moment).
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Malo
+