Recent RPM retention in the EPEL repos

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 20:53:45 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:55 -0600, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>>
>> I completely agree.  I thought we did keep 1 version back, but perhaps
>> I am wrong on that.
>> +1 on making this an official stance for keeping at minimum 1 previous version.
>>
>> Is this difficult to change from a technical perspective?
>
> Yes, you'd need significant changes in mash to support this, or you'd
> need to write a post-mash utility that merged the new tree and parts of
> the old tree together, potentially re-making repodata.  It is not a
> simple/easy task.
>

So is the feature that inode0 is seeing a side-effect of koji usage
versus plague (eg it worked when we were using plague but it changed
when we went to koji?) I am not looking to go back to plague.. but
wanting to pin down why/when the change occurred.


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