Duplicate RPMs

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Apr 11, 2005 6:25 AM, Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretecsystems.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> This might be a dumb question, but should all the released versions of
> packages be in Extras?
> 
> i.e. when the latest update is out, should the previous version be removed
> from the download server?

Keeping older versions available for a period time is a "good thing"
{tm}, since there is no "release" tree to fall back to in case there
is a packaging problem or other bug. A pure rolling release, with no
publicly available fallback will cause significant problems when
packaging errors or made.   The Core updates do this sort of thing
already, when a new update is released, older updates hang around for
a period of time before being purged.

-jef