RFC: Old packages remain on the mirrors for one week

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:22:34 -0500
Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:

> On 08/14/2013 12:26 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > I guess I'm open to the idea, but I have long wished we could have
> > some way to always keep the previous version of a package for yum
> > downgrades. ;( 
> > 
> > Keeping all that in metadata would bloat it a lot.
> 
> You could have an additional metadata package that contained these
> packages. It would only be downloaded/used when "yum downgrade" or
> "yum install foo-$oldversion" is called.

That sounds like it would be a lot of duplication in mirrormanager and
other parts of the project. ;) 

kevin
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