superseded update packages should be preserved

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed Feb 11 23:42:13 UTC 2009


>>>>> "DHR" == D Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> writes:

DHR> I think that there should be an official site that preserves all
DHR> released updates, not just the current ones.

Koji preserves everything except scratch builds.  Did it not have the
package you were looking for?

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=95

DHR> I also wonder if there is some provision of the GPL that requires
DHR> at least the source files of obsoleted updates to remain
DHR> available.

Yes, there is, which is why koji keeps them.

 - J<




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