On 11/8/19 11:54 AM, William Unruh wrote:
On 2019-11-07, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:
On 11/6/19 7:58 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
On Wed, 06 Nov 2019 07:27:08 -0500, Doug Laidlaw
<laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
In my repositories, I had enabled the main "32-bit" release and I had
marked the "32-bit Updates" only as an update medium. That apparently >>>> has the effect that MCC will update what is there, but can't substitute >>>> a new package that is in "Updates." Whatever it does, the solution was >>>> to check the box in the left-hand column.
Look at what is enabled by default. For an update repo, both boxes are >>>> checked.
The updates checkbox simply sets a flag indicating that the repo will
contain
updates. The other box controls whether or not the repo is enabled,
regardless
of the whether it's an update repo or not. If it's not enabled, it is
ignored.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Yes.
Doug, the main "core" repositories contain the packages as they were
when Mageia 7 Official was released. Those will not be changed for the
life of Mageia 7.
All current updates, including those in the updated Mageia 7.1 release
that were different from the original release, are in the "updates"
repositories.
Actually no. Mga7.1 was different from 7.0 not in the packages, but
rather in installation scripts. If you look at many repositories, 7.1 is
a link to 7.
I respectfully disagree, in part. I suppose I could have worded my reply better, explaining things more fully and being far too wordy, but yours
is not precisely correct, either.
There is actually no Official Mageia "7.1." There is only Mageia "7."
But, while the main purpose of the 7.1 isos was for adding support for
new hardware, an additional purpose was to make an installation from
those isos(at the time of release) the same as a fully-updated 7
installation (at the time of the 7.1 isos). So, many of the packages on
the isos were packages that had been updated since the release of 7.
That is what I meant by "updated 7.1 release."
There are no "7.1" repositories. The contents of the 7 main "core" repositories were not changed by the release of the 7.1 isos. There are
also no packages in any of the 7 repositories that are labeled "mga7.1."
In theory, assuming the hardware was supported, if today a user were to install Mageia from an Official "7" iso and then get all pending updates
from the repositories, he would get the same result as he would if he installed from a "7.1" iso and got all the pending updates from that point.
I say "in theory" because of the upgrade option. At the moment, upgrades
are not working well, for several reasons. Some of our testers have been successful, but others have not been. For me, one upgrade test in
VirtualBox was issue-free, while one on real hardware was a dismal
failure. The developers are working on it.
That's the way Mageia's repositories have been organized since the
beginning of the distro.
TJ
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