Older Fedora updates
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 10:03:43 UTC 2008
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:56:34 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The latest FC9 kernel headers update for i386 machines
> (2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686) is broken - the header files seem completely
> scrambled, and nothing will compile on this machine any more. That's
> annoying, but stuff like this happens from time to time. What is really
> bothering me is I can't find the previous RPM to restore it. It seems
> all the mirrors are aggressively deleting anything but the latest
> revision, which might have something to do with their size and
> frequency. :-)
>
> Is there some replace I can go to under circumstances like these, and
> find a complete set of all the released updates?
The Fedora Updates System web pages point to koji, which
is the Fedora Build System: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji
Often it is very slow, however, and as such it's not suitable
for many users to search for and download packages there.
It's better to keep backups of /var/cache/yum!
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