A lot of obsolete rpms in FE currently

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Oct 28 12:26:19 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:50 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> >
> >
> >> When a mantainer releases a new version (and new rpms appear for 
> >> download), the old rpms often are not deleted.
> >>
> >> Now there are 1761 packages (in development/SRPMS/*) and 691 of them 
> >> (40%) are previous (normally obsolete) versions.
> >>
> >
> > I have added it to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraExtrasSchedule 
> > so the next Thursday meeting the steering committee will decide on a 
> > purging policy.
> 
> 
> Are there some news about it?

Yes, We'll be purging all but the latest 2 packages of any given
package.

-sv





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