[Mageia-sysadm] Cleaning iurt svn

[Olivier Blin]

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> while trying to fix the last python issue, I was looking at
> adding /dev/shm in the iurt chroot. But I stumbled accross some various
> stuff that would requires some inputs :
>
> - is uiurt used ? grep -r tell me it doesn't, so maybe we could simply
> erase it ( as this is a plain fork of the regular iurt )

It is not used

> - the makefile still reference mandriva on lots of place. WHile I have
> nothing against this, but this could have unintended side effect, should
> we adapt, or clean it ?

We can adapt it, it seems pretty straight-forward

> - the script iurt_cache_cleaner is also IMHO unused. Remove, clean,
> adapt ?

No idea

> - main script is called iurt2. There is no iurt script, what about
> renaming it and just avoid useless confusion ?

Yep, we should rename it

> - iurt.spec is now handled like the other, what about removing it ?

Ok to drop it

> - Iurt/Utils.pm could be replaced by a external module, like
> http://search.cpan.org/~ivan/Net-SCP-0.08/SCP.pm ? According to comment,
> the issue could be when a computer is down and the lack of timeout.
> Maybe we should check if this is still the case and if not, try to reuse
> code from cpan ? 
>
> - the same goes for Iurt/Mail.pm, there is already more featured modules
> on CPAN for that.

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