[Mageia-dev] Help needed with <..> oar

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 31/03/2013 04:28, Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
> On Friday 29. March 2013 15.39, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
>> oar have a missing dependency, ruby-dbi.
>> ruby-dbi is in svn but not on mirrors. It is is it simply forgotten to submit? It builds fine on iurt.
>
> And now I see why ruby-dbi was missing. It's obsoleted in task-obsolete by Funda, as beeing to old and not working with ruby 1.9. Meaning in a few weeks it will be automatically removed again.
Yet another reason to follow a procedure to remove packages from the 
distribution, instead of just adding it to task-obsoletes

> Last upstream version was released in 2009 and last git commit was in 2008, so it looks like it's not under active development any more.
>
> This also means that oar-admin and oar-webstatus (oar sub packages) will not work.
>
> So, any ideas?
remove it from the distribution. Or ask upstream about the plan for ruby 
1.9 compatibility.

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