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

Thu Jun 21 13:38:45 CEST 2012

21.06.2012 14:30, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
+> IF the update cannot work with the backported new dependency, it should be
+> strict required in the update. in that case, the one from release will be
+> used.
+>
+> if the update does work with the backport, then i don't see why you
+> wouldn't want that, since you enabled backports.
+> ==> this sounds like cherry-picking backports.
+>
+> in other words, you're advanced enough to find out what you want, because
+> i don't think we can support all forms of cherry-picking backports.
+Well, AFAIK there is still no stance on backports policy (are we backporting from cauldron
+(n) to n-2 or not - if we do, we break upgradability here!). Cherry-picking backports is
+needed. And i don't think that the packager who is creating update should check all possible
+backports. What if that backport comes into play later? When the update is already released?
+I still think that backports should not be used during updates. And it doesn't make QA work
+any easier here. This is what we are trying to achieve.
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+Sander
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