[Mageia-dev] How is the obsoleted binaries be removed?

Thu Jun 30 10:41:26 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 30/06/11 00:11 did gyre and gimble:
+> 2011/6/30 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>:
+>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com>:
+>>>> Hello,
+>>>>
+>>>> How is the obsoleted binaries be removed currently in Mageia? Does the
+>>>> maintainer need to call for this? If yes, please remove
+>>>> lib{,64}devhelp-2_1 from cauldron.
+>>>>
+>>>> Thanks.
+>>>>
+>>> whats current problem?
+>>>
+>>> You can obsolete it through BS, add an entry in the spec about it.
+>>>
+>>
+>> our policy is to not obsolete libs.
+> Then the repository will contain a lot of orphan libs.
+
+I think Dexter was just replying to Ze rather than yourself Funda.
+Meaning we don't obsolete libs in the spec file (as was true in mdv), so
+removing old libs no longer used internally is still a manual
+(rpmctl-type) task.
+
+Col
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