Finding old EPEL packages

[Alexey Torkhov]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 20:58 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:05 +0400
> >> Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be
> >> > available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where
> >> > one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my
> >> > case, or to downgrade some packages.
> >>
> >> Now that we are using koji, it should keep all builds we ever do, but
> >> of course we only were able to import all the ones we had from plague
> >> at the time we switched.
> >
> > If koji will keep packages forever that would be good.
> > Thanks.
> 
> No it doesn't. Packages are retained for a certain amount of time but
> not forever due to space reasons.

Then, some place with enough storage space should be found. Like
archive.fedoraproject.org. There is even FC-1 that was released several
years ago could be found, but EPEL package that was there month ago is
gone.

Alexey