Re: HEADS UP: security/audit-packages removal

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:38:24PM +0000, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >
> >On 8 Jan 2008, at 13:41, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >>I don't think you really answered the question, but I interpret your
> >>answer as "no".  My point is that withdrawing audit-packages without a
> >>forced upgrade to pkg_install that brings it back seems unfriendly.
> >
> >
> >I completely agree.
> >
> >The old "audit-packages" package should not be removed before a 
> >"pkg_install"
> >which includes the "audit-packages" has been pulled up into at the least
> >the "netbsd-4" branch.
> >
> >    Kind regards
> >
> 
> Are we all talking about the same thing here ?
> 
> I was under the impression that Greg's issue was that we are 
> depreciating security/audit-packages but not forcing an upgrade to an 
> pkg_install version that has the replacement functionality.  But here 
> you're talking about an import into the NetBSD base system.  What about 
> all the non-NetBSD pkgsrc users ?

How will binary-only packages users handle it ? Will a pkg_install package
be build as part of the bulk builds ?

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