When are kernels removed from the download repository? (was Re: Policy for retiring packages?)

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Jul 5 02:16:37 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 04 July 2007 13:12:33 Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> So those policies aren't going to help you since you need to find out
> when a built kernel rpm is being dropped from the download repository.
> The policy only addresses when a package is being dropped from the cvs
> repository.
>
> Jesse, Michael Schwendt, or one of the relengs might know the answer to
> this but there's currently no written policy that I'm aware of.

In the new merged world, only the latest updates are in the repo at any time.  
This is just due to how mash is used in conjunction with Koji.  We ask koji 
for all the latest packages in the dist-fc7-updates and 
dist-fc7-updates-testing tags and create repos from scratch.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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