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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process</H1>
    <B>Michael Scherer</B> 
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    <I>Tue Jun 28 00:31:41 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le mardi 28 juin 2011 &#224; 09:55 +1200, John a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:17:22 +0100
</I>&gt;<i> Colin Guthrie wrote:
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&gt;<i> &gt; That said, a GUI which detected that certain packages have come from
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; backports and offers and easy mechanism to &quot;switch&quot; back to the older
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; one from release or updates would, IMO, be a plus.
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</I>&gt;<i> Rpms from Tainted have 'tainted' in the filename - why not do the same for
</I>&gt;<i> backports? Surely that would make their identification a little simpler?
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Detection is not that hard. If the release is superior to the one in
release/update, this is a backport. That's trivial from a conception
point of view.

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Michael Scherer

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