On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 12:08:46PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > Actually, there is no point just explaining servers in contrib are not > > > updated. A real explanation of mandrake policy would be far better: > > > - what is main, what is contrib, and what is update ? > > > - what does get updated ? > > > etc... > > > > Good grief.. everyone wants policy policy policy... =) > > > > Main is what is in the main tree. You know, what comes in the download > > edition. The stuff that is labelled "not contribs". The meat of the > > distro. The equivilant of Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > > > > Contribs is contribs. It's labelled as such. > > > > updates? Should be pretty obvious. Updates are stuff in main that need > > fixing for whatever reason. > > > > Main gets updated. contribs doesn't. > > > > I don't see what is so difficult about this. This is how it has *always* > > been. It hasn't changed. No need for a policy regarding it. This is just > > how it's done. > I know all of this, just because i've been there for 4 years now. My point is > that i'm fed up with oral tradition. No one knows about contribs outside > cooker communauty. Among the few newbies that know about urpmi, they always > use urpmi.update whereas none of their sources ever change. Etc... > > What we lack here is a clear explanation of mdk functionning targeted at > outside world.
Your problem then is not the lack of a policy defining support (or lack thereof) for contribs then. Your problem is the lack of awareness of contribs. I can't help you on the last one. -- 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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