Upgrade of unmaintained packages

[Stephen Smoogen]

I am guessing what people are looking for is something like:

rpm-showme orphans

which would show files that are orphaned or maybe a list of RPMS that 
did not get upgraded (how to determine that is a quandry left to the 
student :P)


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Panu Matilainen wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:43, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a question about distribution upgrade : how should we deal with
>> unmaintained packages which don't work in the new distribution ? Let's say
>> we have included a program in Extras (or main) and the project stops for
>> some reason. At some point in the future, the program will stop working
>> (API change, glibc upgrade, ...). How should we deal with such a package
>> (except not including it in the first place of course ;) ) ?
>> We could tell Anaconda to remove it (well I don't know much about Anaconda,
>> but I suppose it is possible), but what about online upgrades using yum or
>> apt ?
>
>Anaconda, up2date and yum never remove packages unless they are
>explicitly obsoleted by something else, AFAIK. (well, anaconda has some
>special remove-this-crap blacklist items like linuxconf :) Apt on the
>other hand does remove packages for which dependencies can no longer be
>satisfied (and occasionally gets itself and you into trouble just
>because of that :)
>
>
>	- Panu -
>
>
>

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