On Wed, Apr 20, 2005, Michael van Elst wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:40:22PM +0200, Matthias Kurz wrote: [...] > > It would be nice to have an option that removes all old versions of a > > package from $prefix/RPM/PKG, when a new build succeeded. > > Maybe, but what is 'an old version of a package' ? I would consider > to simply delete everything from RPM/PKG.
All packages with the same %name are the same package. All packages except the one with the newest build date are old packages. Removing everything from RPM/PKG is not very practical, because one needs all (binary) packages e.g. when a new machine is installed or when machines with older software than the build machine are upgraded. And rebuilding everything all the time is not very elegant and quite time-consuming. But. To solve the problem of duplicate packages in the "build" part probably adds too much complexity in the wrong place. I think it would be better (easier ?) to put this functionality in the "index" part. E.g. an option -d for "delete older versions of a package". (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
