Keeping old versions of packages

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:24:58 -0400
John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:

> I was thinking there had been some xz integration recently.  Maybe
> that was with the delta rpm support.  I don't follow that though
> since we have a local mirror, there's not much point in rsycing,
> storing, etc. the deltas.
> 


yum and createrepo both support xz now - we can really only do it from
f18->f19 iirc - just ot make sure everyone has the required version of
yum and friends.


> > I'm not sure when the XML is downloaded instead of (or in addition
> > to) the DB, but it does appear to happen (I see one example in my
> > mirror server web logs this morning for example).
> 
> I've wondered about that too.  I sure hope we didn't add the
> efficient method on top of the inefficient method, rather than
> replace it.


See my earlier email explaining how that works.

-sv