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

Fri Jun 22 12:34:22 CEST 2012

On 22/06/12 11:25, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> AL13N skrev 21.6.2012 20:39:
+>> Op donderdag 21 juni 2012 17:36:58 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
+>
+>>> End users do not know about urpmi.
+>>> They knows about mgaupdate which shows them updates and about
+>>> rpmdrake which shows everything.
+>>> Thy _ONLY_ way for them to get a backport package installed is to
+>>> manually select one.
+>>> Period.
+>>
+>> actually, that could change, i think it was stormi who proposed to adjust
+>> mgaapplet to handle "backports for end users".
+>>
+>
+> I dont think we should even think of extending mgaapplet to cover
+> backports at this point as we need to focus on fixing #2317 for
+> release/updates first...
+>
+> When that part is fixed and considered stable, we can think of
+> extending it to support backports...
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+
+Marking the Release media as update media by default would support 
+update medias and backport medias, whatever the policy is later decided 
+to be. Unless there is a downside we haven't noticed yet then it looks 
+to be a simple fix.
+
+Thanks
+Claire
+