Re: garbage-collector.rpm ? (Was: Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03)

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05.03.2007 13:47, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:10:33PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
> > > Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:32 +0100
> > > > bugs.michael@xxxxxxx (Michael Schwendt) wrote:
> > > > > The missing obsoletes is a fundamental problem, not specific to
> > > > > Extras. There is no automatic garbage collection during upgrades.
> > > Do we know of any distribution that handles it better?
> > No idea, but maybe we could ship a "garbage-collector.7-1.fc7.rpm" in
> > the repo that simply obsoletes all packages that aren't shipped anymore
> > and don't get obsoleted by other packages.
> And what if such a package gets picked up by another repo?

It would need to provide a newer one (the obsoletes in the garbage 
collector rpm of course needs to be versioned).

But I'd say we shouldn't care to much about this corner case -- getting 
the old stuff away is more important IMHO. Further: it would be best for 
everyone if the maintainer of "another repo" would simply continue to 
maintain the package in Extras ;-)

CU
thl

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