Yann Ciret a écrit :
Le 29/11/2010 15:44, Dexter Morgan a écrit :
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Jerome Quelin<jque...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/11/28 22:12 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
So the mirror medias accordingly to all comments so far would be a simple:
* core
- enabled by default
- mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
- only GPL stuff
- must be selfcontained
I liked the main/contrib separation.
Main was officially supported + sec updates and with only core this
means a lot more work/support.
I dislike the main/contrib separation in some case.
The first example is with Mozilla Thunderbird packages. Some extension
packages are in contrib. So each time thunderbird received security
update, the update cannot be installed because of non automatically
rebuild of his contrib package. And each time I see a bug report of user
asking a manual rebuilt. With only one core media, this situation will
disapear (I hope).
Unlikely. This problem is not at all related to separate repositories.
Rather that one package was updated, and an optional installed module
was not.
The fact that the module is optional is the key point.
The installer should be flexible enough to give a warning in this case,
and ask if you wish to continue the installation.
As well, in the case of Thunderbird, it is almost certain that the
installed module was in fact compatible with newer version of
Thunderbird. (A security problem may directly impact Thunderbird or the
module, but highly unlikely both packages.)
Rpm tags should have been set so that Thunderbird would recognize that
the module was appropriate in the newer version.
So in sum, this was probably only a packaging problem. Whatever the
repository.
Note that if you install generic (not distro specific) Mozilla products,
extensions can be added directly from within the application. I suspect
that this works the same with Mandriva versions, in which case packaging
of Thunderbird should probably be done without any requirements for
optional modules.
the other part ( non free + tainted ) seems OK for me
Me too
Agreed.
Except I would use the more neutral "restricted" rather than "tainted".
"tainted" sounds like one should never install such a package, whereas
it is intended for packages more at risk to have legal problems in some
countries.
