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

Fri Jun 22 20:10:02 CEST 2012

Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 19:34:54 schreef Sander Lepik:
+> 22.06.2012 18:59, AL13N kirjutas:
+> > Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 11:58:10 schreef Claire Robinson:
+> >> I think you are misunderstanding the kind of support we can offer for
+> >> backports. See Thomas's email. We will test a package installs and
+> >> works. We don't plan on supporting updates against already installed
+> >> backports, at least none that I'm aware of and if so then we maybe ought
+> >> to rethink opening backports altogether.
+> > 
+> > exactly, at this point, since noone thinks having supported backports is
+> > feasably, i think we should just have backports being unsupported, less QA
+> > that way too.
+> 
+> We support them only that much that they can be installed and basic
+> functionality works (and this was needed because at Mandriva times some
+> backports just didn't work at all and so backports got bad reputation - we
+> wanted to fix that part). For me it never was more than that.
+
+but, you cannot guarantee install without errors, as we spoke of above.
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