Duplicate RPMs

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="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.

OK, just checking.

> -jef
>
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