Mirror/server RFE: Do not remove old kernel from updates.

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Apr 9 20:24:50 UTC 2007


On Monday 09 April 2007 15:10:56 Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Now I may be dead wrong, and wasting 400MB of old kernels (for released
> versions only - not rawhide/test releases) is way-above-and-beyond
> Fedora's current capacity.
> Maybe Fedora should store the last released kernel of each minor
> release. (2.6.17-xxx, 2.6.18-xxx, etc) - I don't know, lets here some
> open discussion about it.
> ... Somehow I doubt that writing off my post as "not enough storage,
> against policy - good bye" can be considered constructive in any type or
> form.

Once we merge and start using koji as the buildsystem externally, we'll have 
public access to the old builds that were shipped.  They won't be on the 
mirrors but they will be obtainable.  This should satisfy any need.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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