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

Thu Jun 30 11:19:05 CEST 2011

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+>
+
+i agree with this and as they are on old/ we still can revive some if
+needed ( like a rebuild not done, ... )
+