On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote: > > I think you misunderstood the concept proposed, we are not talking about > > replacing cooker/cauldron, just merging updates and backports for the > > released version. > > And then you run "urpmi --auto-select" on your server, and all your web > sites stop working because php was updated to a new version which is not > 100% compatible with the previous one ...
Hmm, two things, actually three: 1) I'd never use Mandriva on a server, because of the short support period, a server OS requires at least 4-5 years support lifecycles (I'm not talking about MES here, just the normal Mandriva variants) 2) from my experience "urpmi --auto-select" does that anyway, it doesn't seem to differentiate between updates and backports (unlike drakrpm that correctly ignores backports when checking for updates) 3) I mentioned earlier that the packager would need to use good judgement and not include major incompatible version changes
