Keeping old versions of packages

[Jan Zelený]

On 9. 4. 2013 at 12:25:56, seth vidal wrote:
> 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

I'm not sure this solves the initial problem - downloading new metadata every 
6 hours or so ...