On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 11:16:09AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 6 August 2014 23:02, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 05:15:17PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > > > > So, I went to orphan the Fedora branches of cmake28 (not sure why these > > > branches were created in the first place - I had meant only to create an > > > > What did you request where? > > > > As I say below, I orphaned the F21, F20, F19 branches on pkgdb. Then I > checked out the F21 branch with fedpkg and tried to run the command below. > Have I misunderstood your question? Sorry, I meant to ask how did you request to get only the EPEL branches? But I guess I understand now. Since the dead.package file was missing on the master branch, the new branches were created during mass-branching. See also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#Is_it_possible_to_get_a_package_only_into_EPEL_and_not_Fedora.3F > > > EL6 branch). Anyway, stupidly, I orphaned them in pkgdb before running > > > fedpkg retire on the relevant branch, which is precisely the wrong way > > > round to do things. So, now I see: > > > > > > $ fedpkg retire "Unneeded as main cmake packge provides this > > functionality" > > > Could not retire package: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'msg' > > > > This error message indicates an old/broken fedpkg, which version did you > > run on which Fedora and was it the lastest update? > > > > I ran this on my F20 machine, fully updated - fedpkg-1.16-1 Ah, actually I locally patched my fedpkg to work, there is an update in testing that will fix this. I assumed it was already in stable. > > > So, I think I need a proven packager to finish the retirement process for > > > these branches - could someone do so? > > > > Which branches exactly? Master and the Fedora branches? > > > > > Yes, exactly. This is done now. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
