[Mageia-dev] task-obsolete - questions about implementation details and how to disable it

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 25/12/2012 20:01, Sander Lepik a écrit :
> 25.12.2012 20:41, Florian Hubold kirjutas:
>> Hello,
>>
>> this should not be about complaints, only some technical questions.
>> How is task-obsolete supposed to work as a package, i.e. what is the mechanism
>> used to pull it in, and then remove it again? It is required by nothing else,
>> so i guess
>> this is either pulled by urpmi/perl-urpm/rpmdrake itself.
>> Can sombody enlighten me about this?
> AFAIK task-obsolete is pulled in by rpmsrate.
>> And the next step would be the question for the proper way how to disable
>> this mechanism as an enduser.
> As root, run this command:
>
> echo task-obsolete >> /etc/urpmi/skip.list
>
> This will add task-obsolete into the skip list and you can use obsoleted software.
even easier:
rpm -e task-obsolete

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