Re: RFC: cleaning up updates and updates-testing

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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:09, Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Thursday 09 September 2004 13:56, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Christof Damian (christof@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
> > > > At the moment, the Fedora updates tree is somewhat out of
> > > > hand (look, wow - 27G).
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any specific and concrete objections to
> > > > removing older, superceded, updates?
> > >
> > > I guess this is just meant for cleaning up the directory and
> > > not to save space? I don't mind the cleanup, but would like the
> > > old updates archived somewhere.
> >
> > It's for both, actually.
> >
> > Frankly, I see no need for archiving of:
> >
> > a) old test updates
> > b) test updates that have been superceded by final updates
> >
> > Others, there could be some use for, I suppose.
> >
> > Bill
> 
> Aren't old, superceded updates useful, and sometimes critical, for 
> determining when a particular problem might have been introduced?  
> I feel, just in general, it's better to have old packages available 
> somewhere.
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke
> 
> 
I agree with Mike that old updates should be archived somewhere (a
current problem with the new xosd comes to mind), but having said that,
I think a compromise is to lose the old test updates but keep any update
that has been "released".

--Rob




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