RFC: cleaning up updates and updates-testing

Mike Klinke lsomike at futzin.com
Thu Sep 9 19:09:34 UTC 2004


On Thursday 09 September 2004 13:56, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Christof Damian (christof at damian.net) said:
> > > At the moment, the Fedora updates tree is somewhat out of
> > > hand (look, wow - 27G).
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any specific and concrete objections to
> > > removing older, superceded, updates?
> >
> > I guess this is just meant for cleaning up the directory and
> > not to save space? I don't mind the cleanup, but would like the
> > old updates archived somewhere.
>
> It's for both, actually.
>
> Frankly, I see no need for archiving of:
>
> a) old test updates
> b) test updates that have been superceded by final updates
>
> Others, there could be some use for, I suppose.
>
> Bill

Aren't old, superceded updates useful, and sometimes critical, for 
determining when a particular problem might have been introduced?  
I feel, just in general, it's better to have old packages available 
somewhere.

Regards, Mike Klinke







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