2011/6/24 José Jorge <jjo...@free.fr>: > Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:15:03, Michael Scherer a écrit : >> Last solution, declare that cherry picking is not supported, or that >> people are on their own, and explain the reason. However, people have >> been asking this, and recommend this. This would also be against a goal >> of having confidence in the backports. >> > I have always used backports in a total way : if I want latest software > against stability, I take them all. Think about little dependencies that still > exist (vlc + ffmpeg, etc). > > So I would say Mageia has two update modes : > > - end user (security) mode (updates) > - power user (let's try everything) mode (updates+backports) > > Each user will recognise himself in one of the two modes.
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