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

[Colin Guthrie]

'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





-- 

Colin Guthrie
colin(at)mageia.org
http://colin.guthr.ie/

Day Job:
  Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/
Open Source:
  Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/
  PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/
  Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/