[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

[andre999]

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