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

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Tue Apr 10 05:30:54 UTC 2007


At 12:24 AM +0300 4/10/07, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:24 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Good enough.
>I (we?) don't need the old RPMs to be mirrored.
>I (... we) need them obtainable.

<metoo> Yes. </metoo>
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