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From: Olivier Crete <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:34:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162312455.4802.17.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b38c6f4c0610310802h3fd063dbm4af6dd852080ef5d@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-31-10 at 17:02 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> This leaves package maintainers in the situation that there are
> 'old'/'insecure'/<insert preferred adjective here> versions of
> packages that are hanging around only because arches have fallen
> behind.  Package maintainers want to be able to remove these old
> versions, but currently cannot because of keywording-lag.
> [...]
> 3) ??

What about, package maintainers remove all of the other keywords from
said broken version and add a nasty ewarning message to the pkg_postinst
like "this version has a known security problem, dont use it, bitch to
your arch team if you're not happy"...

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30  2:49 [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees Jason Wever
2006-10-30  7:49 ` Francesco Riosa
2006-11-01  0:35   ` Francesco Riosa
2006-10-30  8:28 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-10-30 13:23   ` Ferris McCormick
2006-10-30 14:09     ` Carsten Lohrke
2006-10-30 13:58   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-30 19:09     ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-30 19:31       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-30 19:50         ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-30 20:21           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-30 20:46             ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-30 20:53               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-30 21:33                 ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-30 22:40                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-30 23:46                     ` Alec Warner
2006-10-31  0:33                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31  7:57                         ` Paweł Madej
2006-10-31  8:02                           ` Mike Frysinger
2006-10-31  8:38                             ` Paweł Madej
2006-10-31  8:52                               ` Mike Frysinger
2006-10-31  9:08                                 ` Paweł Madej
2006-10-31  9:17                                   ` Mike Frysinger
2006-10-31  9:57                                     ` Paweł Madej
2006-10-31  8:06                           ` David Shakaryan
2006-10-31  8:38                             ` Paweł Madej
2006-10-31 15:02                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 15:36                             ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-31 15:45                               ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-31 16:02                                 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-31 16:06                                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 16:08                                   ` Roy Marples
2006-10-31 16:11                                   ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-31 16:34                                   ` Olivier Crete [this message]
2006-10-31 18:51                                   ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-10-31 19:06                                     ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-10-31 19:22                                       ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-10-31 19:51                                     ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-31 20:12                                       ` Brian Harring
2006-10-31 15:55                               ` Jason Wever
2006-10-31 16:04                               ` Stephen P. Becker
2006-10-31 16:16                                 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-31 16:32                                   ` Stephen Bennett
     [not found]                                     ` <45478062.7080109@gentoo.org>
2006-10-31 17:05                                       ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-31 17:14                                         ` Fernando J. Pereda
2006-10-31 17:18                                         ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-31 17:28                                           ` Fernando J. Pereda
2006-10-31 17:38                                           ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-31 17:50                                             ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-31 18:00                                               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 18:10                                                 ` Alec Warner
     [not found]                                                 ` <4547922A.7030609@gentoo.org>
2006-10-31 18:47                                                   ` Fernando J. Pereda
2006-10-31 19:42                                                     ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-31 20:17                                                       ` Bryan Østergaard
2006-10-31 20:23                                                       ` Seemant Kulleen
2006-10-31 20:34                                                         ` Fernando J. Pereda
2006-10-31 20:41                                                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-11-02 14:40                                                     ` Michael Cummings
2006-11-02 16:59                                                       ` Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
2006-10-31 18:52                                                   ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-31 18:05                                               ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-31 18:06                                               ` Fernando J. Pereda
2006-10-31 17:10                                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 16:41                                 ` Paweł Madej
2006-10-31 14:46                     ` Steve Dibb
2006-10-31 15:19                       ` Roy Marples
2006-10-31 16:57                       ` Alec Warner
2006-10-31 17:11                         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 17:23                           ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-31 17:32                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 17:47                               ` Jakub Moc
2006-10-31 17:54                             ` Ferris McCormick
2006-10-31 17:30                           ` Alec Warner
2006-10-31 17:45                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 18:14                             ` Steve Dibb
2006-10-30 12:54 ` Denis Dupeyron
     [not found] ` <200610311045.07049.chriswhite@gentoo.org>
2006-10-31 18:53   ` [gentoo-dev] Take this motha to IRC lolz Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-31 19:45     ` Wernfried Haas

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