Recent RPM retention in the EPEL repos

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Dec 22 19:11:05 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:55 -0600, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> 
> I completely agree.  I thought we did keep 1 version back, but perhaps
> I am wrong on that.
> +1 on making this an official stance for keeping at minimum 1 previous version.
> 
> Is this difficult to change from a technical perspective? 

Yes, you'd need significant changes in mash to support this, or you'd
need to write a post-mash utility that merged the new tree and parts of
the old tree together, potentially re-making repodata.  It is not a
simple/easy task.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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