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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Update of backport, policy proposal</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 24 13:42:45 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>2011/6/24 José Jorge <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jjorge at free.fr</A>>:
><i> Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:15:03, Michael Scherer a écrit :
</I>>><i> Last solution, declare that cherry picking is not supported, or that
</I>>><i> people are on their own, and explain the reason. However, people have
</I>>><i> been asking this, and recommend this. This would also be against a goal
</I>>><i> of having confidence in the backports.
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</I>><i> I have always used backports in a total way : if I want latest software
</I>><i> against stability, I take them all. Think about little dependencies that still
</I>><i> exist (vlc + ffmpeg, etc).
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</I>><i> So I would say Mageia has two update modes :
</I>><i>
</I>><i> - end user (security) mode (updates)
</I>><i> - power user (let's try everything) mode (updates+backports)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Each user  will recognise himself in one of the two modes.
</I>
So, where do I find myself in this scenario?
I do not use backports in general, they are disabled.
A new version of foo is coming in in cauldron and I want to use it in Mageia 1.
A friendly packager builds a backport of this new version of foo for Mageia 1.
I enable backports, do "urpmi foo" and I get the version from
backports including dependencies.
After that I disable backports.
This is the way backports have been used by many users in Mandriva.
And (BTW) this is the exact meaning of the word, a version is
backported from a newer distrib-version or cooker/cauldron to an older
distrib-version or current stable version.
--
wobo
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