On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 <[email protected]> wrote: > > This would reduce the space requirements on the mirrors and it would mean > > that Mageia is a "rolling distro" for most apps, making it more attractive > > compared to ubuntu/Fedora/opensuse and at the same time reduce the workload > > for packagers. > > No. No space would be saved. > package foobar-1.1-2mdv2010.1 and foobar-1.1-2mdv2011.0 are _NOT_ the same > They'll end in different files (different sizes & checksums) b/c: > - different ENVR > - different build environement (build against libc+libboo+... of > 2010.1 & 2011.1 respectively) >
That's not what i meant, I meant this: This is how mandriva currently does it: release/foobar-1.1-1mga2010.1 updates/foobar-1.1-2mga2010.1 backports/foobar-1.2-1mga2010.1 This is how it would be: release/foobar-1.1-1mga2010.1 updates/foobar-1.2-1mga2010.1 Basically you drop the backported patch in updates (like I said earlier, this would only be for apps that don't have child dependencies and where the new release is not a major new release, just an incremental release, or at least where it's an evolution not a major rewrite).
