[Mageia-dev] Packagers meeting

Wed Jun 27 11:52:38 CEST 2012

Thierry Vignaud skrev 27.6.2012 11:55:
+> On 27 June 2012 08:11, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+
+>> can we have another talk of bug 2317? to find people willing to make a new
+>> patch that's quite more complex?
+>>
+>> ideally bug 2317 should be fixed before backports opens
+>
+> No, it's not related since you can't garanty that every user will get the update
+> prior to use backports.
+> So there's no need to rush...
+>
+
+Well, its no need to rush it "for backports" as we wont do any linking 
+/checking for that (since we dont have any update applet for that either)
+
+But it's absolutely _critical_ to get it done for managing current 
+/updates as the amount of extra work to check deps and link them are
+insane...
+
+
+At the rate we are linking stuff to updates tree it will soon be
+almost like:
+
+pushd media/core/release
+for pkg in *.rpm; do ln $pkg ../updates/$pkg;done
+popd
+
+
+And comparing with mdv and their linking they have it easy...
+
+As only /main is supported they only have to check that,
+wich means:
+~ 2950 srpms
+~ 7600 rpms
+
+Compare that to our /core:
+~ 9970 srpms
+~ 19340 rpms
+
+
+Then we have /nonfree to cover (as mdv non-free)
+
+Then we have /tainted
+(mdv didn't need to think about that either as that was plf)
+
+
+So as a carrot (or a whip) to get someone to try to fix #2317,
+one could say "it needs to be fixed before opening backports"
+
+--
+Thomas
+