On Fri Sep 26, 2003 at 03:38:37PM +0200, G�tz Waschk wrote: > > configurability of a contrib source out of postinstall in DrakX > > This is a good idea. I hope the suits don't decide against this to > protect the added value of their powerpack DVDs. > > > possiblity to nuke files with standard virus extension in postfix (.exe, > > .pif..) > > I somehow misread this for plf :-) > > > Which leads me to another problem: backported packages: Projects like > plf sometimes need to backport cooker or contrib packages to the > stable distribution. This can lead to problems when upgrading to the > next stable distribution, when the release number of the package > didn't change. Here's an example: > > - install foobar-1.2-3mdk backported from cooker to Mandrake > 9.1, obviously based on libbaz2. > - upgrade the distribution to 9.2. 9.2 has libbaz3 and > foobar-1.2.3mdk based on libbaz3 > - as the version and release numbers stay the same, the foobar package > doesn't get updated to the version linked against libbaz3 > > It would be nice if packages would include an implicit epoch tag, so a > package build on 9.2 will always be newer than one for 9.1 with the > same version and release tags.
Start doing what I'm doing for updates. If you backport 1.2-3mdk from cooker (and we'll asusme 1.2-2mdk or lower is in 9.2), drop the version to 1.2-2.1mdk or, what I'm starting to do, something like 1.2-2.1.92mdk. This then makes it implicit for 9.2, the version is dropped so it's higher than what is in 9.2 (2mdk) but lower than what is currently in cooker (3mdk). -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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