reducing distribution CD count
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 22:04:08 UTC 2005
On Feb 27, 2005, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> you touch on a larger issue about how a package vendor can effectively
> 'expire' any package to make sure users are aware its no longer being
> maintained by the original vendor.
fedora-release could Obsolete: package <= V-R as of the time of the
new release or something like that. It's not perfect, since if
there's an update for the package after the initial release, one would
have to spin a new fedora-release package to cover that. Yeah, right
:-)
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