yum annoyances

Steve G linux_4ever at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 6 17:30:15 UTC 2005


On 12/6/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> This could be worked around with an "obsolete-packages" rpm in the
> repository, which would mark as Obsolete all such known packages.

Seems like an answer might be to have a "check-retired" command. When packages
are removed from the repo, they are moved to an area where the retired packages
live. Meta-data is built from that directory so there are no typos.
Check-retired would not automatically delete packages just like update doesn't
automatically update packages. It should print the list for approval and proceed
only if the user tells it to.

-Steve


		
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