[rhelv6-list] EPEL History

Leon Fauster leonfauster at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 8 17:03:44 UTC 2018


> Am 08.11.2018 um 13:28 schrieb Hearn, Stan J. <Stan.Hearn at nscorp.com>:
> 
> I just realized that the EPEL repository purges older versions of rpms periodically.
> 
> For instance, the version of a package that I installed in July 2017 is no longer in the repository.  Without that version of the package being in the repository, I can't back out a newer version install.
> 
> I'd like to update several EPEL RPMs but if I don't know if I can back them out it is risky.
> 
> What are my options?  I could create a reposync and this would solve it from today onward, but how can I access older versions?  Has someone already created a RHEL repo that keeps every package forever?

maybe here?  https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/

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