Keeping old versions of packages

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

7 days is way, way, way too long for an active repository such as any of
the currently supported Fedoras. And yes, it *is* burdensome to download
and keep updating all the time.

If running more than a few servers, I always maintain a local nightly
mirror and point my clients to that by default. The metadata download is
still burdensome, but the traffic is local and much faster. And I
completely exclude "drpms" from the mirror, there's just no point to it if
you've using a local mirror.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 09.04.2013 11:10, schrieb Richard Hughes:
> > Using PackageKit and yum on the command line is often painful as we
> > have to always download metadata unless it's less than a few hours
> > old. Being able to update the metadata once a week would be awesome
> > (with the possible exception of security updates) so that we could
> > schedule the 20Mb+ metadata update when the user is idle rather than
> > waiting for updates
>
> [root at rh:~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
> [fedora]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> #baseurl=
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
>
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
>
> > 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
>
> this does not work for many reasons and having more repos would
> make things worser with low bandwidth because you have to load
> more metadata at all and if i want search for updates i use
> "yum clean metadata && yum upgrade" which is a real pain on
> slow bandwith
>
> the reason is that the metadata getting larger and larger because
> all of the shiny ideas what additional ones would be nice while
> the developers are on LAN or at least very fast LAN networks
>
>
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