Re: L1 mini iso. Duplicate packages in sid and unreleased.
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:14:41 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:18:23 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
> > > > There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and
> > > > sid.
> > > >
> > > > 131 of these are obsolete packages in unreleased, ie the
> > > > duplicates in sid are newer.
> > > >
> > > > I have generated a list of these packages. Anyone want to use it
> > > > to remove the offending packags from unreleased?
> > >
> > > Yes, please post them; I think at least Guillem can get them
> > > removed from unreleased.
> > >
> > > At this point, I think APT-pinning to prefer unreleased over
> > > unstable makes trouble than it has benefits, so
> > > /etc/apt/preferences should be adjusted.
> >
> > I added support to mini-dak to automatically remove obsolete packages
> > from unreleased long time ago. I'll check later on why it's not doing
> > that anymore.
>
> So it seems I in fact didn't add such support. I might try to automate
> something, but there's the problem of mapping source package renames
> and similar which might be tricky.
>
> Anyway, cooked a list which I feeded to Aurelien Jarno to do a run of
> semi-automatic obsoleting. The archive should be clean for now.
>
> regards,
> guillem
>
Thanks,
This will make life easier for me.
Phil.
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