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 <dmorga...@gmail.com>: > >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <mmode...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <fundaw...@gmail.com>: > >>>> 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