On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 05:21:56PM -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Till Maas wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:29:40PM -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
>
>>Currently, how can I tell if there are any other epel packages that have been
>>orphaned?
>
>You can inspect the list that the following command generates on your
>server:
>package-cleanup --orphans
I was not aware of that command so I took a look at it. Correct me if I am wrong
but I think that just tells if there is an rpm in any of the configured repos.
With mediawiki package-cleanup shows nothing since the original mediawiki rpm is
still in the repo.
Am I missing something?
Sorry, this was my fault. I assumed that orphaned packages are removed
from the repo. But maybe this shows a proper way to deal with this
issue: Create a new EPEL repo called epel-orphans or similar, disable it
by default and move all orphaned packages there. Then users can still
get the lastest orphaned package by enabling epel-orphans and
package-cleanup --orphans can be used.
Regards
Till