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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>andré</B>
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<I>Thu Oct 7 04:27:17 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>nicolas vigier a écrit :
><i> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote:
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</I>>><i> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote:
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</I>>>>><i> I think you misunderstood the concept proposed, we are not talking about
</I>>>>><i> replacing cooker/cauldron, just merging updates and backports for the
</I>>>>><i> released version.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> And then you run "urpmi --auto-select" on your server, and all your web
</I>>>><i> sites stop working because php was updated to a new version which is not
</I>>>><i> 100% compatible with the previous one ...
</I>>>><i>
</I>And you wouldn't appreciate a little excitement from time to time ;)
>><i> Hmm, two things, actually three:
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</I>>><i> 1) I'd never use Mandriva on a server, because of the short support
</I>>><i> period, a server OS requires at least 4-5 years support lifecycles
</I>>><i> (I'm not talking about MES here, just the normal Mandriva variants)
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</I>><i> But you can still use it while it is supported, and upgrade to a newer
</I>><i> realease when it's no more supported.
</I>><i>
</I>But he doesn't like all the work of upgrading to a newer release ...
>><i> 2) from my experience "urpmi --auto-select" does that anyway, it doesn't
</I>>><i> seem to differentiate between updates and backports (unlike drakrpm that
</I>>><i> correctly ignores backports when checking for updates)
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> That's why backports repository is not enabled by default.
</I>><i>
</I>And in any case, that could be fixed
>><i> 3) I mentioned earlier that the packager would need to use good
</I>>><i> judgement and not include major incompatible version changes
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> There is always some small (and sometimes big) incompatibilities with
</I>><i> new versions. Not always known even by the developers. How should the
</I>><i> packager know about all the incompatibilities ?
</I>><i>
</I>We can all use a little spice in life -- can't we :)
- André (andre999)
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