The issue of removing packages from the OS is important in 2 main cases: - package renames (pkgname changes) - phasing out of old packages
In the rename case, our method is to declare the old package incompatible with the renamed package. For example: CSWbar (old package, removed from the catalog) CSWfoo (new package) incompatible with CSWbar I'm not sure what's the plan for the user actions. I think that the assumption is that users will read messages from pkgadd, and realize that CSWbar should not be installed. Having realized that, they will use their own tools to remove the old packages. I might be wrong though. I remember a discussion on irc where Peter Bonivart mentioned that pkgutil automatically removed the incompatible packages. Is that true? in general, what is the typical package removal scenario for an OpenCSW user? Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
