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[Mageia-dev] RFC: task-obsolete and README.*.urpmi enhancement

+ Anssi Hannula + anssi at mageia.org +
+ Wed Jan 4 20:26:34 CET 2012 +

+
+ +
On 04.01.2012 17:53, Luc Menut wrote:
+> Hello,
+> 
+> We have recently discussed here about task-obsolete.
+> http://www.mail-archive.com/mageia-dev@mageia.org/msg09762.html
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3786
+> 
+> I like the idea.
+> But I think that we need to inform the user about the package(s) that we
+> will obsolete and remove on his system (and why: security, ..).
+> So I tried to use README.*.urpmi to do this.
+> But I found that currently, urpmi and rpmdrake don't handle very well
+> optional README.*.urpmi (%ghost); they always display information's
+> screen, even if the file doesn't exist.
+> 
+> So, I propose here 2 enhancements for README.*.urpmi (POC patch for
+> urpm/install.pm, and task-obsolete.spec in attachment):
+> 
+> 1) add support for optional README.*.urpmi (%ghost in spec):
+> This will allow to build this README.*.urpmi at install time in %pre,
+> %post or %trigger only when it's necessary.
+> One use case from the recent past in my mind:
+> we have no way to inform users that still use nspluginwrapper + i586
+> flashplayer on x86_64 (and only them), that this is now deprecated and
+> they should replace the i586 by the x86_64 flashplayer,
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2146#c22
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2146#c25
+
+This change seems reasonable.
+
+> 2) handle README.*.(obsolete|deprecated).urpmi
+> In order to display informations about the deprecated or obsoleted
+> package(s), I suggest to handle 2 new kinds of README.*.urpmi:
+> - README."nameObsoletedPackage".obsolete.urpmi to inform about the
+> package we obsolete by task-obsolete
+> e.g. java-1.6.0-sun*, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3101
+> 
+> - README."nameDeprecatedPackage".deprecated.urpmi to inform about
+> package that we considere as deprecated, but we have no reason (no
+> vulnerability, security, ...) to force uninstallation (task-deprecated?).
+
+I don't understand the need for this one, isn't this just the same as
+README.urpmi?
+
+> What do you think ?
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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