RFC: Old packages remain on the mirrors for one week

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:24 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:07:43 -0400
> Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> ...snip...
> 
> > It has an added benefit: it could make « yum downgrade » work better.
> 
> This wouldn't work with yum downgrade would it? Doesn't yum downgrade
> need to 'see' the packages in the metadata?

Ah, maybe indeed.

At the very least, if the user didn't refresh his cached metadata, it
would work, but you're right, it's not as good as I thought originally.


-- 
Mathieu