On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:55:18PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Axel, I was thinking less about upgrading old versions and more about > ARCHIVING. Ideally, it would be great if all old EOL snapshot versions > (and maybe even the intervening upgrades) would be archived in case > someone needed them for reference. > > For example, suppose I were still on F7 and decided I needed a new > atrpms package -- it would be great to still be able to grab it. > > Let me know what can be done to help.
Actually the packages are all sharing the same src.rpm. Which means that if you would need an F7 version of say a newer mythtv release that ATrpms will only build for F8 upwards or some withdrawn F7 package you would only need to do an rpmbuild --rebuild ...src.rpm. Of course if you need many other deps that would be a larger effort. In time the support does deteriorate, e.g. if you would try to build some newer ATrpms packages for FC1 you would get missing BRs due to renamed packages etc. But last not least, it is really important to not keep EOL'd distributions alive and keep people on a safe branch. If upgrading systems in Fedora looks like too often, then mayvbe for the system in question RHEL5/CentOS5/SL5 is the better choice? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
