[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

Wed Jun 27 16:47:03 CEST 2012

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:
+>
+>    
+>>>> I would favour tagging backports as update repos, so that in the event
+>>>> of a newer backport for security or bug fixes, that it will be
+>>>> automatically presented with other updates.
+>>>>          
+>>> No.
+>>> as the update applet currently works it would show the backport as
+>>> an update even if you dont have an earlier backport installed,
+>>> defeating the purpose of having separate /updates vs /backports
+>>>        
+>> This is conditional on first modifying the update tools, as suggested next.
+>> A backport should only update an already installed backport.
+>> (Similarly for nonfree and tainted, if that is not already the case.)
+>>      
+> We should not change the behaviour of medias tagged as update repo. If
+> we want a different behaviour for backports then we should tag those
+> medias as backport, not update.
+>    
+
+The idea is, once the tools are appropriately adjusted, to tag the 
+backport repos as update media, as in rpmdrake.  But alternately we 
+could get the update tools to automatically treat backport repos as 
+update media for backports.
+The concept is that backports would be presented for update along with 
+other updates.  Backport updates would only replace backports, but 
+backports could be replaced by regular updates, if the version is equal 
+or higher.
+
+-- 
+André
+
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