On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 10:10 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Alexey Torkhov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 20:58 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alexey Torkhov <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:05 +0400 > >> >> Alexey Torkhov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be > >> >> > available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where > >> >> > one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my > >> >> > case, or to downgrade some packages. > >> >> > >> >> Now that we are using koji, it should keep all builds we ever do, but > >> >> of course we only were able to import all the ones we had from plague > >> >> at the time we switched. > >> > > >> > If koji will keep packages forever that would be good. > >> > Thanks. > >> > >> No it doesn't. Packages are retained for a certain amount of time but > >> not forever due to space reasons. > > > > Then, some place with enough storage space should be found. Like > > archive.fedoraproject.org. There is even FC-1 that was released several > > years ago could be found, but EPEL package that was there month ago is > > gone. > > > > Well to answer your first question that started this off.. EPEL does > not have any FUSE packages nor has it because kernel packages have > been verbotten. rpmrepo or rpmfusion might have had them but not EPEL.
Yeah, I saw the EL branches and tags and thought that it was built. Some other repos have the package, right. > One the second, archive.fedoraproject.org deals with releases. Not > every package that was released for a fedora is kept forever. A > release is kept and the last update to a package in that release is > kept. But if 20 updates occurred between the two, those aren't kept. > > EPEL does not have 'releases' in the same manner Fedoraproject does > and so it only keeps the latest package around. Trying to keep around > terabytes of packages around is beyond what this volunteer part can > deal with. Oh, right, only last package is kept on Fedora mirrors. I thought that some number of older updates is kept too - may be saw it in some other repos. So, then there is no need to keep them for EPEL. Thanks for clarifications :) Alexey _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
