Future owners/ACL choices

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Feb 28 06:56:34 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi (kevin at tummy.com) said:
>
> > create a 'fedora-orphans' package. When things are orphaned, that
> > package gets added to it:
> > Provides: oldpackagename = $provEVR
> > Obsoletes: oldpackagename < $obsEVR
> >
> > If the package is unorphaned, just bump release and it's back in
> > business. I do suspect this will make some mad users if they use other
> > repos or locally built packages however.
>
> Hm. I think the effect on locally-built packages is too much for this.

Agreed, as already said in a previous post.  Just a note, if someone is still 
interested in pursuing this, at least the Provides needs to be dropped from 
the above - it's just wrong.




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