Mirroring: Bad datestamps prevent hardlinking

[Daniel Roesen]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:04:40AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Note these are superseeded by RH, not FL, e.g. noone wants to remove
> the last vendor provided package, only the ones that the vendor
> himself doomed to /dev/null.

I was talking about _all_ superseeded updates. There is no sense to
mirror deprecated updates around the world.

> Developers may be interested to be able to track a package back, but
> IMHO we don't need that structure replicated over all mirrors raising
> each distros space by a factor of 50%. Just look at the plethora of
> obsoleted kernel packages, e.g. (i686/up only)

Exactly my point. They should be archived, but not replicated
everywhere. Total waste of resources.


Best regards,
Daniel

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