Keeping old versions of packages

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 9 12:27:55 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:10:26AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I'm wondering what the interest would be in keeping packages
> referenced in metadata on the mirrors for say a month? We'd probably
> need a separate fedora-security repo too that's designed to be kept
> small enough so that metadata checks every day would be not costly in
> terms of bandwidth and time.
> If anyone is interested in doing this, you'd be awesome. Thanks.

I've heard of a plan in development about batching non-critical updates into
monthly sets. It seems like these two things could go together.

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