[Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

Tue Aug 14 11:09:41 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 14/08/12 10:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le 14/08/2012 10:57, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> 'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 13/08/12 16:49 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Maybe we could change task-obsolete to conflict with obsolete packages
+>>> instead of obsoleting them :
+>>
+>> task-obsolete is also used to remove packages from the mirror too.
+> s/task-obsolete/obsoletes tags in any package/
+> 
+>> So if
+>> we change how it works, then we have to find another user friendly
+>> mechanism to remove packages (not necessarily a bad idea tho')
+
+> Is asking an admin on IRC or a mailing-list user-friendy enough ? 
+
+Well in the past such requests can go unheeded for a while as happens
+from time to time.
+
+>Or a
+> wrapper accessible by ssh (as other similar admin tools on BS) taking
+> care both of subversion removal and package tree cleanup ?
+
+That would be much better, but made available to packagers easily to
+prevent unnecessary sysadmin overhead.
+
+Col
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