[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

Wed Jun 27 15:41:14 CEST 2012

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:
+
+> Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+>> andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 14:40:
+>>> Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+>>>> andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 10:47:
+>>
+>>>>> I would favour adding the requirement that the dependancies of the
+>>>>> backport must be available in the next release.  So that we would 
+>>>>> expect
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> This is esentially stating that we cant backport any bigger version to
+>>>> mga2 /backports than mga3 will havein /release wich means when we hit
+>>>> version freeze for mga3, it also freezes mga2 /backports...
+>>>
+>>> I'm not following this point.
+>>> What I mean is that if backport xx for mga1 requires yy version 12 in
+>>> mga1, but yy is version 13 in mga2, we would define the requires for yy
+>>> to accept versions 12 to 13 (or maybe wider).
+>>
+>> Point is what if you backport version 14 to mga1, and mga2 has version 13, 
+>> then upgrade path breaks.
+>
+> No problem.  If the requirements of version 14 are present in mga2, then 
+> the backport will (very likely) continue to work normally.  If the versions 
+> of the required packages change, they will be updated with the upgrade.  
+> Since version 13 of mga2 is less than the version 14 of the backport, it 
+> won't be installed.
+
+There is no guaranty that requirements of version 14 mga1 backports are
+all available in mageia 2. If it is linked with libsomething.so.1, but
+mageia 2 only has libsomething.so.2, then there is a problem.
+
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