Repository cleanups

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:14:43 -0500 (CDT)
limb at jcomserv.net ("Jon Ciesla") wrote:

> 
> > On 13.09.2007 16:43, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >> Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> >>> On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>> Some people may hate me for this, but I think running the deps
> >>> check on testing would be a good idea.  Otherwise people may have
> >>> broken packages there and not know it.
> >
> > Exactly (and that's why I brought the topic up).
> >
> >>> Plus, if people get nagged enough,
> >>> they may get motivated to fix things, import needed packages,
> >>> etc. :)
> >
> > +1 -- we also in the future try to keep the broken deps even in
> > testing to a minimum. E.g. something like "if there is a package in
> > testing that has broken deps for more then 7 days it's going to be
> > removed."

Yeah, I would like to see runs against testing as well. 

In addition to the other reasons, it would be very nice to get
everything fixed before 5.1 comes out so we can cleanly move things
over to the stable repo. 

> 
> Where may I see what's in testing?  I have a package that was moved
> there from broken deps but I've since resolved them for EPEL-5, and
> I'm curious where it sits.

You should be able to look in

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/testing/

kevin
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