Re: pkgin idea: warning about service restarts and database migrations

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

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:10:41AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 10:23:09AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Some time ago we discussed about how to deal with obsolete packages that
> > will be removed from pkgsrc in the near future.
> > Maybe it would be the opportunity to implement something like an
> > OBSOLETE variable, to be displayed when a user install or upgrades
> > to an obsolete package ?
> > 
> > something like
> > OBSOLETE+= "this package is EOL upstream and will be removed after 2023Q2"
> 
> We already have a method for handling this.
> Add an entry to the pkg-vulnerabilities file like this:
> 
> python36-[0-9]* eol     http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/vulns/eol-packages
> 
> and in the eol-packages file, add an entry describing the reason:

I don't think it serves the same purpose (and I disable the
pkg-vulnerabilities script because they are way too verbose).

Here we're not talking about a vulnerability in a package but a package
that is going to be removed from pkgsrc. It's not the same thing

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