[csw-maintainers] Drop koffice_gcc ?

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Dec 21 14:56:48 CET 2011


Hi Maciej,

Am 21.12.2011 um 14:52 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński:
> 2011/12/21 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>> Am 21.12.2011 um 14:27 schrieb Ben Walton:
>>> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Wed Dec 21 07:39:51 -0500 2011:
>>> 
>>>> Ok, should I delete koffice_gcc with csw-upload-pkg then?
>>> 
>>> +1.  I agree with Maciej that things that we should focus on the
>>> strengths and not let fringe stuff hold back progress.  If somebody
>>> becomes interested, it can be re-added at that time.
>> 
>> I can't delete that:
>> 
>>> dam at login [login]:/export/mirror/opencsw-official/allpkgs > csw-upload-pkg --remove koffice_addons-1.3-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz koffice_gcc-1.6.3-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz koffice_gcc-1.6.3-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz koffice_i18n-1.3.5-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz
>>> Removing koffice_addons (all SunOS5.8) from catalog unstable i386 SunOS5.10
>>> Removing koffice_addons (all SunOS5.8) from catalog unstable i386 SunOS5.11
>>> Removing koffice_addons (all SunOS5.8) from catalog unstable i386 SunOS5.8
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 606, in <module>
>>>     uploader.Remove()
>>>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 179, in Remove
>>>     self._RemoveFile(filename)
>>>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 192, in _RemoveFile
>>>     self._RemoveFromCatalog(filename, cat_arch, cat_osrel, file_metadata)
>>>   File "/home/dam/bin/csw-upload-pkg", line 235, in _RemoveFromCatalog
>>>     % (url, http_code, d.getvalue()))
>>> __main__.RestCommunicationError: http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/releases/catalogs/unstable/i386/SunOS5.8/a20559ab50efba6edebf5d33191c58b0/ - HTTP code: 406, content: {"error_message": "package deletions from an obsolete OS release such as SunOS5.8 are not allowed"}
>>> zsh: 6349 exit 1     csw-upload-pkg --remove koffice_addons-1.3-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz
>>> dam at login [login]:/export/mirror/opencsw-official/allpkgs >
>> 
>> Just deleting from Solaris 9+10 seems wrong to me. I propose to not integrate koffice_* into
>> dublin and publish the updates for my lib only on the new release.
> 
> Hah, so we did exercise both options:
> 
> 1. "csw-upload-pkg --remove foo-*-SunOS5.8-*.pkg.gz" with the
> expectation that it will not get removed from the 5.8 catalog
> 2. "csw-upload-pkg --remove foo-*-SunOS5.8-*.pkg.gz" with the
> expectation that it will get removed from the 5.8 catalog

:-) I guess the latter one is indeed wrong. So, I suggest to not integrate
koffice_* into "dublin" and push the updated ilm libs only to "dublin".


Best regards

  -- Dago


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