[Mageia-dev] How is the obsoleted binaries be removed?

[Michael Scherer]

Le jeudi 30 juin 2011 à 09:41 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 30/06/11 00:11 did gyre and gimble:
> > 2011/6/30 Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>:
> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com>:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> How is the obsoleted binaries be removed currently in Mageia? Does the
> >>>> maintainer need to call for this? If yes, please remove
> >>>> lib{,64}devhelp-2_1 from cauldron.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>> whats current problem?
> >>>
> >>> You can obsolete it through BS, add an entry in the spec about it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> our policy is to not obsolete libs.
> > Then the repository will contain a lot of orphan libs.
> 
> I think Dexter was just replying to Ze rather than yourself Funda.
> Meaning we don't obsolete libs in the spec file (as was true in mdv), so
> removing old libs no longer used internally is still a manual
> (rpmctl-type) task.

I do not know if I proposed that already, but what about moving rpms
without source rpms after 2 weeks ( or 1 month ) ?

( and later remove the file after 1 month ). This let us the time to
rebuild everything, and provides automated cleaning ?

-- 
Michael Scherer