Hi Maciej, Am 20.03.2013 um 11:19 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]>: > 2013/3/20 Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]>: >> This depends on the step you want to take. Do you just want to drop >> dialog_minimal or make an obsoletion by the normal dialog? >> >> In the first case I guess you need to >> pkgdb removepkg `gmd5sum <dialog_minimal…>` > > This command refers to the package stats. If you remove a package that > way, you remove it from the database altogether. You cannot refer to > it any more from any catalogs for instance. In this case, Peter only > wants to break a bond between a particular svr4 file and a few > catalogs. > >> or >> pkgdb del-from-cat <osrel> <arch> <cat-release> `gmd5sum <dialog_minimal…>` >> >> Maciej: right? > > Possibly, although this low level operation doesn't prevent you from > breaking catalogs. The safe_remove_package.py script is a better > approach, because it does sanity checks and bails out if the operation > would break the catalog.
What do think about a high-level command that bundles all commands a user should do under normal operations, like upload a package or remove a package in a simple way without the need to use multiple commands? Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
