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

Fri Jun 22 14:00:14 CEST 2012

22.06.2012 13:20, AL13N kirjutas:
+>> And about the conflicting part - well, at that point you are already on
+>> your own, at least
+>> as i see it. Backports can break updating/upgrading, we can't avoid that
+>> (and for the same
+>> reason backports should be cherry-picked, so you get as little trouble as
+>> possible). The
+>> best you can do at that point is to submit a bug about broken update and
+>> maybe (just maybe)
+>> we can submit the updated package that needs those new deps into backports
+>> too - so you can
+>> pull it from there and get over the update problem. But this should be a
+>> rare case anyway.
+> Breaking updates because we try to support backports is not something that
+> i wish to have, no matter how rare the case.
+Sorry to disappoint you, but this is something you can't avoid. And for that reason
+backports are not enabled by default ;)
+> And your solution wouldn't work, except for backporting the update and
+> having the user manually try to use the backported version for that too...
+Yes, you are finally starting to get my point. User has to manually fix those problems with
+backports and there is nothing we can do about it (at least it won't be easy).
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+Sander
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