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

Thu Jun 30 11:08:06 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 30 juin 2011 à 09:41 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> '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.
+
+I do not know if I proposed that already, but what about moving rpms
+without source rpms after 2 weeks ( or 1 month ) ?
+
+( and later remove the file after 1 month ). This let us the time to
+rebuild everything, and provides automated cleaning ?
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+