Extras repo cleanup

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:40 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
> > fedora/extras/4
> > fedora/extras/4_old
> 
> Doesn't continually moving items to a different directory as they age
> incur extra bandwidth cost to mirrors who choose to keep the old
> packages? Won't they have to download them twice?
> 
> Because of Extras "rolling" model with no definable "release" trees to
> fallback to, I am strongly in favor of keeping at least one old
> version of the packages in the extras trees and mirrored for the final
> Core releases for some reasonable amount of time.
> 
> For Extras-development, I frankly don't care if the old packages stay
> any length of time at all..officially.
> 
> -jef"Hmm, I thought Seth or someone was working on automating the
> clean-out process"spaleta

It is automated. We only keep the latest 2 packages in extras.

it's been that way for at least a month now.

-sv