2011/6/14 Jehan Pagès <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> wrote: >>> and shouldn't be used >>> to bring the half of your system up to date. >> >> The word "stable release" implies "doesn't change much"; so a new >> version of vlc or wine isn't a problem, but don't put "updating to >> GNOME3 or KDE 4.8 in Mageia 1" and "stable" in the same sentence, they >> don't fit..... such _huge_ changes need to happen in a development >> release so that the niggles (which are bound to show up) can be ironed >> out so that the distro becomes "stable" and ready to be released >> (Mageia 2). > > I agree this could be a way to do it, which would maybe scare less > some people of the "so-feared rolling", but there still would need a > way to update "simply" one's installation without having to download a > big iso with 90% in it we won't care in an upgrade (where we have > updated most of the other packages, non critical, periodically through > rolling release). > > I think it is so insane so many distributions are still with an > "update by CD" logics (even though it is partly modernized with > dropping the iso into an usb stick, or even simply mounting it > directly, I think that is still so backwards that this is the major > advertized way to do it). > > Jehan >
You're mixing cards here, I am talking about users running Mageia 1 and using backports, not about full distro upgrade. A full distro upgrade, e.g. from Mageia 1 to 2, is supported and gets refined as much as possible before release (the same way the upgrade from mdv 2010.1 to mga1 was refined to ease the upgrades). -- Ahmad Samir
