On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/16/2010 03:18 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:34 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:59:19PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>> I think I'll change the f15 deadline to very-far-in-the-future, and
then
>>>> when I invent some spare time, work on some of the other ideas for
automatic
>>>> determination of the time. That's better than not having the package
>>>> completely zapped.
>>
>> I have released ownership
>>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/system-autodeath
>>
>>
>> go claim it and enjoy :)
>
> Just a thought: How about equipping a repo's metadata with some sort of
> "expiration"/"best before" date, which yum etc. could use to warn
users?
> If we had something like this, system-auto-death etc. would become
> superfluous.
>
it would mean we'd have to be able/willing to push new metadata out to
the base repo so that the repo could be used at all for future installs.
Not
necessarily - Yum could simply issue a warning and continue to
work, yum could have a --disable-expiration-warnings option, ...
There are many possibilities