Keeping old versions of packages

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Apr 9 18:28:56 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> said:
> So, needless to say, I'd suggest anyone interested in this to look at option
> #3. Note that enabling something like that on rawhide would have a large
> effect on the repository creation time - there's only so many ways to speed
> up scanning across 50000 packages & 100GB on a SAN.

It would also have a significant impact on the mirror servers' disk
space (speaking for a mirror that is running low on disk and no $$ to
upgrade).
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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