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

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 21:24:32 UTC 2007


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.

- Gilboa





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