[csw-maintainers] Drop koffice_gcc ?

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2011/12/21 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
> Hi Ben,
>
> 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

Maciej