On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:43:51PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:55:12PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:09:42PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > For another problem of orphaned/dead packages we discussed an additional > > > > > metadata type for dead-packages that should be removed from folks' > > > > > systems if they're found. That might be the only workable solution. We > > > > > could get arch and evr specific with that if implemented sanely. > > > > > ThoughtS? > > > > > > > > I started working on a yum plugin for this. But then I got distracted. > > > > > > > > > > post what you have. It's a start. > > > > > > If this is the path we want to go I'll get on it asap, it shouldn't be > > > overly much code - mostly like installonlyn but just querying some extra > > > metadata. > > > > After talking to a few folks this sounds like the way we're going to > > have to go. A plugin which lets us tell yum 'remove these if you find > > them'. > > > > it steps around the arch-specific obsoletes need. If/when rpm gets that > > added in and stable we can disable the plugin and worry about it no > > more! :) > > > > I was trying to figure out what would be a reasonable file format and > > unless we're planning on doing something tricky it might make sense to > > have a simple flatfile in the metadata > > > > pkgname-v-r.arch > > pkg2-v-r.arch > > pkg3-v-r.* > > Maybe a .d/ directory so that, for example, you can drop a series of > flat files in via some RPM? > Like: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/shoot-on-sight.d/*.data > > version specifiers? > pkgname.arch <= e:v-r For the previously discussed HAL problem, would it be possible to create an updated HAL.i386 RPM that would _only_ be placed inside the x86_64 repo? This new hal rpm could simply contain one file: /etc/yum/pluginconf.g/shoot-on-sight.d/hal.data containing one line: "hal-*-*.i386" and it could have one dependency: "requires: shoot-on-sight-plugin". That way it doesnt conflict with any files, and gets removed on the next yum run. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
