[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

Wed Jun 27 16:57:04 CEST 2012

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:
+
+> 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.
+
+backports are not updates, why should we tag them as update ?
+
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