On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:11:35PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 05.03.2007 13:47, Axel Thimm wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:10:33PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>Rahul Sundaram schrieb: > >>>Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >>>>On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:32 +0100 > >>>>bugs michael gmx net (Michael Schwendt) wrote: > >>>>>The missing obsoletes is a fundamental problem, not specific to > >>>>>Extras. There is no automatic garbage collection during upgrades. > >>>Do we know of any distribution that handles it better? > >>No idea, but maybe we could ship a "garbage-collector.7-1.fc7.rpm" in > >>the repo that simply obsoletes all packages that aren't shipped anymore > >>and don't get obsoleted by other packages. > >And what if such a package gets picked up by another repo? > > It would need to provide a newer one (the obsoletes in the garbage > collector rpm of course needs to be versioned). So we actually endorse replacements in 3rd party repos, OK, fine with me. And what happens on the next update of garbage-collector in Fedora which will nuke that package again? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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