Re: garbage-collector.rpm ? (Was: Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03)

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.michaelgmx.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).

But I'd say we shouldn't care to much about this corner case
-- getting 
the old stuff away is more important IMHO. Further: it would
be best for 
everyone if the maintainer of "another repo" would
simply continue to 
maintain the package in Extras 

CU
thl

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