On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > Le jeudi 30 juin 2011 à 09:41 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit : >> 'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 30/06/11 00:11 did gyre and gimble: >> > 2011/6/30 Dexter Morgan <[email protected]>: >> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <[email protected]>: >> >>>> Hello, >> >>>> >> >>>> How is the obsoleted binaries be removed currently in Mageia? Does the >> >>>> maintainer need to call for this? If yes, please remove >> >>>> lib{,64}devhelp-2_1 from cauldron. >> >>>> >> >>>> Thanks. >> >>>> >> >>> whats current problem? >> >>> >> >>> You can obsolete it through BS, add an entry in the spec about it. >> >>> >> >> >> >> our policy is to not obsolete libs. >> > Then the repository will contain a lot of orphan libs. >> >> I think Dexter was just replying to Ze rather than yourself Funda. >> Meaning we don't obsolete libs in the spec file (as was true in mdv), so >> removing old libs no longer used internally is still a manual >> (rpmctl-type) task. > > I do not know if I proposed that already, but what about moving rpms > without source rpms after 2 weeks ( or 1 month ) ? > > ( and later remove the file after 1 month ). This let us the time to > rebuild everything, and provides automated cleaning ? > > -- > Michael Scherer > >
i agree with this and as they are on old/ we still can revive some if needed ( like a rebuild not done, ... )
