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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet</H1>
    <B>nicolas vigier</B> 
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    <I>Tue Jun 12 18:46:41 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 09 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:

&gt;&gt;<i>    
</I>&gt;<i> You got me thinking :)
</I>&gt;<i> - Just marking all backport repos as update repos is almost enough to solve 
</I>&gt;<i> the problem, in terms of the tools installing the backports.  Great idea !
</I>&gt;<i> We just have to tweak the tools so that a backport is only installed as an 
</I>&gt;<i> update of a backport.
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No. People who only want to use a specific backport will not enable the
backport repository. They will install the backport and keep the
backports repository disabled.

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</I>&gt;<i> - Note that we should allow a non-backport to replace a backport, as will 
</I>&gt;<i> likely be encountered in a release update.  If the versioning is properly 
</I>&gt;<i> done (according to established packaging policy), a non-backport in a newer 
</I>&gt;<i> release will have a higher version number, thus replacing the backport.
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Which policy ?

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