Re: Orphaning system-auto-death

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On 12/16/2010 06:26 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 12/16/2010 03:18 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:34 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:59:19PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>>> I think I'll change the f15 deadline to very-far-in-the-future, and then
>>>>> when I invent some spare time, work on some of the other ideas for automatic
>>>>> determination of the time. That's better than not having the package
>>>>> completely zapped.
>>>
>>> I have released ownership
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/system-autodeath
>>>
>>>
>>> go claim it and enjoy :)
>>
>> Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of
>> "expiration"/"best before" date, which yum etc. could use to warn users?
>> If we had something like this, system-auto-death etc. would become
>> superfluous.
>>
>
> it would mean we'd have to be able/willing to push new metadata out to
> the base repo so that the repo could be used at all for future installs.
Not necessarily -  Yum could simply issue a warning and continue to 
work, yum could have a --disable-expiration-warnings option, ...

There are many possibilities
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