Lamar Owen wrote: > I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the > ftp site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old > binaries. What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last > minor release of each major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but > leave 7.4.1. The space taken by binaries is significant (about 1GB > at this point). Since we are keeping all source releases (although I > would question that, since we use CVS), keeping all the binaries > around is just a space waster, IMHO.
Unless you know that someone is actually running out of space, I think it would be better to keep past releases around. I've needed them more often than you would think. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])