Re: RFC: cleaning up updates and updates-testing

[Steven Pritchard <steve silug org>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:34:21PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> It was useful for me to be able to go back and fetch all the older
> kernel updates to see which one broke qemu.
> 
> So I would say that it would be useful to have older updates available.
> They don't have to be in the same directory, of course.

ISTR this comes up on mirror-list-d occasionally, and the preferred
solution seems to be what you are suggesting.

An obsolete-updates directory could be easily --exclude'd, and people
who need to back out an update for whatever reason would still have
the old updates available.

Steve
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