Keeping old versions of packages

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:18:54 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 00:05:45 +0800,
>    Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >The current behaviour would be obtained by setting it to 1, and 
> >setting it to 2 would already be a positive change as it would allow 
> >downgrading a package if the update went wrong.
> 
> I don't think that is really what you want either. The idea is to
> keep recently obsoleted updates around, not 2 or 3 versions of
> everything.
> 
> The change has some other benefits. Reverting bad updates in rawhide 
> would be easier. You can use yum downgrade instead of having to going 
> look at koji and download builds. Dealing with packages dropping out 
> of repos when moving between test and updates. The latter issue is 
> especially bad with branched during freezes.


So - this is just an idea - and not necessarily a good one - but what
about moving older pkgs which are not in the initial release repo into
an updates-archive repo.

We could leave the repo disabled by default and only keep 2 copies of
any single pkg name in the repo at a time.

That way in the best of all possible worlds you'd have at most 4 copies
of a pkg in total:
1 - in the base release 'everything' repo
1 - in updates
2 - in updates-archive


-sv