RFC: cleaning up updates and updates-testing

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 10 00:52:18 UTC 2004



Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> 
>>At the moment, the Fedora updates tree is somewhat out of
>>hand (look, wow - 27G). 
>>
>>Does anyone have any specific and concrete objections to 
>>removing older, superceded, updates?
> 
> 
> I vote to nukem!! If someone wants them they have been around forever
> and they ahould be archiving them locally. IMO for the most part they are
> a waste of space and although disk is cheap when you are running a public
> mirror it gets expensive after a while.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

Yup, what he said...

Ed.





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