A lot of obsolete rpms in FE currently

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Oct 18 17:38:23 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 11:49 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > Because of the "rolling" nature of the Extras tree.. i feel its
> > vital..that at least one older version of packages are in the tree for
> > a period of time after an update is pushed in case an updated package
> > has a showstopping problem.. so users can fallback to something while
> > any such problem is worked out and fixed.
> 
> s/at least one/exactly one?
> 
> Would this constitute a sensible policy?

I just went through the repo with repomanage keeping the newest 2
packages for any given package name - it would remove something like
1235 files (including srpms)

I'll set it up to automatically run that way this afternoon.

purge, purge.

-sv





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