repo check tools

[Horst H. von Brand]

Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:44:13 +0300, Peter Astakhov wrote:

[...]

> > For example, now in Fedora Extras exist package 
> > wesnoth-1.0.2-4.fc6.x86_64.rpm and wesnoth-1.2-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm

> This is intentional. For stable releases of Fedora Extras we keep the
> latest _two_ package releases. For FE Development we only keep the
> latest.

Nice to know that.

Wrong way around, if you ask me. Breakage in rawhide is much more common,
and thus the need to hunt down a not-yet-uptodate mirror (or futz around in
/var/cache/yum/*/packages) for a working package.

Or could "yum clean" be thaught to keep a few old versions behind?
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