rpms not in repodata

[Matthew Kent]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 23:04 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:48:18 -0700, Matthew Kent wrote:
> 
> > Wanted to double check that this is expected:
> > 
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz
> > 
> > only lists the 2 most recent nagios-plugins releases while on disk we
> > have
> > 
> > nagios-plugins-1.4.11-2.el5.src.rpm
> > nagios-plugins-1.4.13-4.el5.src.rpm
> > nagios-plugins-1.4.6-3.el5.src.rpm
> > 
> > Goes against what I've typically seen of repodata reflecting the
> > contents of all rpms in the folder. In fact we have a script written on
> > this assumption, is it incorrect?
> > 
> > Thanks for all the hard work, EPEL is very handy :)
> 
> Looks somewhat as if the rsync script to Red Hat possibly doesn't
> delete the old packages.
> 
> I no longer know how to log in to buildsys.fedoraproject.org to check the
> primary repository where RepoPrune is run. After the incident, hosts have
> been moved around, and I couldn't find docs in the Wiki...

fyi: in epel/5/{srpms,x86_64,i386} I'm seeing 919 old packages which
anyone rsync'ing is pulling down, probably needlessly.
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