[Mageia-dev] Packagers meeting

Wed Jun 27 13:18:43 CEST 2012

On 27/06/12 12:13, AL13N wrote:
+>> 2012/6/27 Sander Lepik<sander.lepik at eesti.ee>:
+>>> I still don't understand where's the big problem if we enable release
+>>> media for updates.
+>>> It's not updated, so it shouldn't slow down updating too much. Hardware
+>>> that can run DEs
+>>> today should have no problems with release media enabled for updates. QA
+>>> is proposing this
+>>> solution again and again. Is this really that hard to change?
+>
+> Don't forget that upgrades work similarly.
+>
+>> The _simplest_ solution (conceptually speaking) would be to use a
+>> condition which would enable release media for updates _if_ one or
+>> more of the dependancies cannot be found in the updates media.
+>> But I guess that it's not that simple in the code if it still has not
+>> been considered otherwise than conceptually.
+>
+> I think the simplest solution (code-wise) is to make sure that where-ever
+> you're looking for dependencies, is to have strict requires so that it
+> will always get the correct one.
+
+
+That would have no effect. If the any recursive require was in Release 
+media, it would fail. It includes if a Tainted package recursively 
+requires something from Core Release.
+
+Plus if there is an added suggest that has recursive requires in Release 
+media then an upgrade will also fail, we recently found.
+
+Claire
+