RFC: Old packages remain on the mirrors for one week

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Fri Aug 16 22:57:38 UTC 2013


On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:46:10 +0100
Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:15:11 -0600
> Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 
> > That sounds like it would be a lot of duplication in mirrormanager
> > and other parts of the project. ;) 
> > 
> > kevin
> 
> Why not do it's on the users PC\Laptop. (As a change\feature?)
> /etc/yum.repos.d/updates.repo (ditto testing if enabled)
> keepcache=1
> 
> cron.weekly
> repomanage --keep=2 /path/to/cache
> 
> default on rawhide.repo

Well, I think many folks won't like the extra disk space used. 

I think it would take something like yum-plugin-local to have a proper
repo that yum could see to downgrade things from though. 
(I've not tried your suggestion above to see if it would work for
downgrades or not)

kevin


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