On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:30 -0800, Steve G wrote:
On 12/6/05, Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
This could be worked around with an "obsolete-packages" rpm in the repository, which would mark as Obsolete all such known packages.
Seems like an answer might be to have a "check-retired" command. When packages are removed from the repo, they are moved to an area where the retired packages live. Meta-data is built from that directory so there are no typos. Check-retired would not automatically delete packages just like update doesn't automatically update packages. It should print the list for approval and proceed only if the user tells it to.
sounds like something worth adding to package-cleanup in yum-utils.
Care to hack something together?
-sv