RFC: Old packages remain on the mirrors for one week

[drago01]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
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> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:14:14 +0200
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
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>> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:47:03 +0100
>> > Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to ask for comments on a feature I need for the Fedora
>> >> Application Installer. The current yum backend in PackageKit does
>> >> something like this:
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>> >> * yum install foo
>> >> * depsolve transaction using cached metadata
>> >> * download foo-0.1.noarch.rpm
>> >> * error! foo-0.1.noarch.rpm doesn't exist
>> >> * download latest repomd, primary
>> >> * re-depsolve
>> >> * download latest filelists
>> >> * continue to re-depsolve
>> >> * download foo-0.2.noarch.rpm
>> >> * install foo using librpm
>> >>
>> >> Now, we do this as the metadata is cached on the client side for
>> >> up to a week as we don't want to unconditionally update the
>> >> metadata for every transaction, but we don't know if we can
>> >> download the package without downloading all the metadata
>> >> beforehand. This is incompatible with the swish UX in the
>> >> application installer where we can search for things straight away
>> >> without having "Downloading..." in the UI appearing at odd times.
>> >> So my proposal is thus:
>> >>
>> >> 1. We retain old packages on the mirrors for a minimum of 7 days.
>> >
>> > without completely rewriting how we compose the trees this is not a
>> > possibility.
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>> Bill's mail reads a bit different ...
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> I suggest you re-read Bills email. the non-trivial changes are
> completely redoing how we compose the trees.

Seems like we both have a different definition for the word "complete".