[Mageia-dev] How is the obsoleted binaries be removed?

[Dexter Morgan]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> 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 <dmorganec at gmail.com>:
>> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Zé <mmodem00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> 2011/6/27 Funda Wang <fundawang at 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
>
>

i agree with this and as they are on old/ we still can revive some if
needed ( like a rebuild not done, ... )