On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:17 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > We use fedora-obsolete-packages to remove packages from end-user systems. > Users can opt-out of installation of fedora-obsolete-packages and retain > packages that would be obsoleted [*]. > > The same mechanism could be used RHEL, for example by having > 'rhel-is-up-to-date.rpm' > installed by default, with newer versions doing the obsoletes for packages > that have been dropped. Users *may* stop the upgrade of rhel-is-up-to-date, > but then they know their system is using outdated packages. DNF will even > nicely tell them which ones. > > This is: a) simple, b) well-understood, c) already implemented. > > Zbyszek > > [*] Right now fedora-obsolete-packages has > Provides:libsolv-self-destruct-pkg(), > so this muddies the situation a bit. Let's assume that the packages in RHEL > would not have that set.
Note that exclusion should also work even with the self-destruct property, since exclusion means it no longer gets computed in solver transactions at all. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
