hal + pam update errors

[Mark]

it sounds good.

but how is this flat file gonna be managed? will there be a rpm that`s
updating the flatfile with other rpm names incase they need to be added? or
will it be a solid flat file that is gonna be delivered with fedora core 7
and won`t be updated?

whatever one it is.. i wouldn`t go for a flatfile.. i think it`s better to
make use of sqlite (yea yea.. that`s flatfile based).
sqlite is needed for yum anyway so why not just use it for this aswell.

but something different.. isn`t the basic problem of this all in yum or rpm?
(i think yum) and wouldn`t it be better to just fix that.

Mark.


2007/4/5, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu>:
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:09:42PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > For another problem of orphaned/dead packages we discussed an
> additional
> > > > metadata type for dead-packages that should be removed from folks'
> > > > systems if they're found. That might be the only workable solution.
> We
> > > > could get arch and evr specific with that if implemented sanely.
> > > > ThoughtS?
> > >
> > > I started working on a yum plugin for this. But then I got distracted.
> > >
> >
> > post what you have. It's a start.
> >
> > If this is the path we want to go I'll get on it asap, it shouldn't be
> > overly much code - mostly like installonlyn but just querying some extra
> > metadata.
>
> After talking to a few folks this sounds like the way we're going to
> have to go. A plugin which lets us tell yum 'remove these if you find
> them'.
>
> it steps around the arch-specific obsoletes need. If/when rpm gets that
> added in and stable we can disable the plugin and worry about it no
> more! :)
>
> I was trying to figure out what would be a reasonable file format and
> unless we're planning on doing something tricky  it might make sense to
> have a simple flatfile in the metadata
>
> pkgname-v-r.arch
> pkg2-v-r.arch
> pkg3-v-r.*
>
>
> and just have yum add those pkgs, if they exist, to the list of ones to
> remove from the users' system.
>
> I think it would make sense for the plugin to catch and ignore things
> like:
> a*
> b*
> *
> ab*
> ?*
>
>
> etc.
>
> I need some feedback though, things I'm forgetting?
>
> -sv
>
>
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