Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (11 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 19 December 2011 12:13:15 Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 11:27 AM, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
>
> I prefer the solution of vendoring the patch and keep things simple
> making the patch simply "Not relevant" if any of the affected packages
> is from a different vendor than the patch. You can't assume the patch
> will behave correctly (in terms of fixing an issue) if one of the
> components was replaced.

But that's IMO not 'not relevant'. If the system has an affected package 
installed, the issue addressed by the patch is relevant. Just the solution 
the patch offers is not (auto-)applicable. I think we should at least try to 
update 'our' packages.

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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