On Feb 27, 2005, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > you touch on a larger issue about how a package vendor can effectively > 'expire' any package to make sure users are aware its no longer being > maintained by the original vendor. fedora-release could Obsolete: package <= V-R as of the time of the new release or something like that. It's not perfect, since if there's an update for the package after the initial release, one would have to spin a new fedora-release package to cover that. Yeah, right :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
