On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:13:37PM +0200, VOROSKOI Andras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >> Well, usually newer packages are better too, but for safety reasons it
> >> worth keeping those packages for a few weeks or so.
> >
> > My favourite example is installing java 5 from 0.5 just because in some
> > cases some broken (closed-source) apps still doesn't work with java 6.
>
> Ahm, that's a different case, true. Maybe some options=('keepfpm') could
> help. Or you also want to handle pacman -Su cases with some IgnorePkg-like
> behaviour? That would be easier with java5, java6 etc. packages. Am I
> wrong?I think it does not really worth any effort, the proposed change just changes the repoman script on genesis to do an "mv foo bar" instead of "rm foo". These packages are in most cases removed from the FST because of being old, very buggy, unusable, broken, vulnerable or some other reasons. Giving support them would be insane IMHO. (I mean providing security support for java5 - have fun. ;) )
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