FC 5 Updates Suggestion

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:47:31 -0500,
  tbrowder <tbrowder at cox.net> wrote:
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> 
> On Behalf Of Anil Kumar Sharma
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: FC 5 Updates Suggestion
> 
> >IIRC only last two updates are retained.
> 
> That's not so bad as it once was, but is that policy stated somewhere?

I keep a private mirror of update (using lftp) to catch changes and my
impression is that it isn't specifically the last two releases. I think
removal is somewhat manual. The old version usually sticks around for a while,
presumably to give people a chance to fall back if an update breaks things. I
think I have observed updates that had security issues disappear faster after
an update, than other updates, but it may be just my imagination.