Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-08 23:45, andré a écrit : Frank Griffin a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Thanks. So this thread is to see if there were a possibility to programme a more efficient roll-back option so that it would be more aware of the previous dependencies needs for the previous

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Margot
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:15:18 -0400 andré and...@laposte.net wrote: Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-08 23:45, andré a écrit : Frank Griffin a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Thanks. So this thread is to see if there were a possibility to programme a more efficient roll-back option so that it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-10-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-09 03:57, Margot a écrit : There has been a lengthy debate about users' wishes for the Mageia release cycle, but one important voice has been missing from this debate: the collective voice of the devs who will be responsible for producing the releases. Before we start having polls

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-10-09 Thread Oliver Burger
Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com schrieb am 2010-10-09 Before we start having polls and surveys, it would be useful to hear from our devs. I'm hoping that they have already been communicating with one another in the background (IRC? private emails?) and working out what can actually be done. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : Note that configuration files that have been changed from the installation default are often already saved. (Generally .old is appended to the configuration file name, sometimes .new to the new configuration file.) But here you are only

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 08:05:08AM +0100, Margot wrote: There are already various options which can be run with urpmi, such as --noclean and --repackage (see man urpmi) and perhaps these could be incorporated into the GUI - with full simple explanations for the user on exactly what will happen

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : Note that configuration files that have been changed from the installation default are often already saved. (Generally .old is appended to the configuration file name, sometimes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Dick Gevers
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:28:44 +0200, Luca Berra wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post): --repackage has been dropped from urpmi since it has been dropped from rpm 4.6 Will you post it in Mdv Bugzilla? TIA =Dick Gevers=

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Luca Berra a écrit : On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : Note that configuration files that have been changed from the installation default are often already saved. (Generally .old is appended to the configuration

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Frank Griffin a écrit : Part of the recent thread about what the desirable release cycle should be devolved into a discussion of how backports works and whether or not it's suitable. I'd like to examine this issue. The current urpmi repository architecture serves purposes that were meaningful

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Thomas Backlund
andré skrev 9.10.2010 17:41: BTW, a feature to blacklist the installation of a particular version of a package would be very useful. I.e. an option never install this package or never select automatically this package. This would prevent a package found to be problematic on a particular system

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:16:09PM +, Dick Gevers wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:28:44 +0200, Luca Berra wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post): --repackage has been dropped from urpmi since it has been dropped from rpm 4.6 Will you post it in Mdv