[Mageia-sysadm] Decision needed on mgaapplet and adding Requires.

Wed Aug 17 02:20:59 CEST 2011

Op woensdag 17 augustus 2011 00:53:01 schreef Michael Scherer:
+> Le lundi 15 août 2011 à 17:03 -0400, David W. Hodgins a écrit :
+> > Regarding https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317
+> > which was raised as a result of
+> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2097
+> > where kipi-plugins-expoblending could not be installed using
+> > mgaapplet, until the package hugin (a newly added requires)
+> > was in the same repository.
+> > 
+> > Either mgaapplet must be changed to allow requires to be satisfied
+> > 
+> >  from Core Release, or newly added requires must be copied from
+> > 
+> > Core Release to Core Updates Testing, and then pushed to Core
+> > Updates, when testing has been completed.
+> > 
+> > If mgaapplet is to be modified, this must be given a high priority,
+> > as it is now blocking another update.
+> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2353
+> 
+> I would modify mgaapplet, personnaly.
+> 
+> Bloating hdlist with uneeded rpms is wrong.
+
+imho the best way would be to make urpmi's --update features allow non-update 
+media for dependencies of update media's packages and suggests... but atm i 
+have no time to fix this myself.
+