[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-21.mga3

Wed Aug 1 15:33:49 CEST 2012

Le 01/08/2012 15:19, Olivier Blin a écrit :
+> Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> writes:
+>
+>> Morevoer, it's quite ridiculous to focus on removing obsoleted package
+>> from end users machines, without first cleaning our own
+>> infrastructure: db5.2 is still present in the subversion repository,
+>> for instance...
+>
+> IIRC, the obsoleted package are supposed to be removed on upload by youri.
+They are only removed from the master package tree (task 2 in my list).
+
+What was originally supposed to be a side-effect of adding an obsoletes 
+tag to a package (if foo is supposed to replace bar on end users 
+machines, there is no reason to let bar exist on the mirror, and this 
+will save an rm -f command to some sysadmin) is now largely perceived as 
+the dedicated way to manage mirror content (in order to remove bar from 
+mirrors, we have to obsoletes it somewhere). Which is a dangereous 
+practice, as illustrated this morning.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #391:
+
+We already sent around a notice about that.
+