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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
