RFC: Junk in Fedora Extras

[Ville Skyttä]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 23:52 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:12:54 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > So we want to exclude kmod packages (source and binary) from the "keep
> > only N versions of a package around" pruning, but if there are stray
> > kmod binaries for which there's no corresponding srpm, I think they
> > should get the same treatment as everything else.
> 
> Which is what the implementation does.
> 
> Except that binaries are not excluded via a white-list. The decision
> whether to delete any binary rpm depends solely on the availability of its
> src.rpm. No mercy!
> 
> This also implies that if we want to remove a package from the repository,
> all we need to do is kill its single src.rpm.

Great, sounds like it works exactly like I think it should, then.