Re: Question about retiring a package

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On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to retire shmpps in Fedora 16+, leaving it in F15 and EPEL.  I
> haven't retired a package, so I wanted to double check the process.  I
> should just retire the F16 and devel branches and that will leave the
> rest active, right?
>
> I'm retiring it because it is no longer needed.  shmpps is a hack to get
> PPS time signals into ntpd on systems without kernel PPS support.  The
> Linux kernel now has PPS support, and Fedora 16 includes the userspace
> tools, so I don't see any reason to keep this package around.

Right, just retire it in devel, you can't get it blocked in f16 but
you can orphan it.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

-J

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