[Mageia-sysadm] youri check: perl updates

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 14 April 2011 09:34, Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> i saw that http://check.mageia.org/updates.html is now available.
> however, a lot of perl modules are reported as non up-to-date due to our
> usage of %perl_convert_version.
>
> would it be possible to apply %perl_convert_version macro to packages
> matching /^perl-/ before comparing versions? or is it too much trouble?
>
> i don't want someone to blindly run an update when we are already at the
> latest version...

Please also blacklist the following packages that are de facto forked:
- drakx-installer-*
- perl-URPM
- urpmi

There's no sense in reporting mdv is bumping version like babby rabbits.
It could result in errors from packagers that do not know and would
break the distro.

Thx