[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 ?


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Anssi Hannula


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