On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > I want to retire shmpps in Fedora 16+, leaving it in F15 and EPEL. I > haven't retired a package, so I wanted to double check the process. I > should just retire the F16 and devel branches and that will leave the > rest active, right? > > I'm retiring it because it is no longer needed. shmpps is a hack to get > PPS time signals into ntpd on systems without kernel PPS support. The > Linux kernel now has PPS support, and Fedora 16 includes the userspace > tools, so I don't see any reason to keep this package around.
Right, just retire it in devel, you can't get it blocked in f16 but you can orphan it. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life -J > -- > Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
