Finding old EPEL packages

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 02:58:19 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:05 +0400
>> Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be
>> > available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where
>> > one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my
>> > case, or to downgrade some packages.
>>
>> I think CentOS had fuse in their centosplus repo (along with a kernel
>> that had fuse modules). Perhaps try there?
>>
>> Now that we are using koji, it should keep all builds we ever do, but
>> of course we only were able to import all the ones we had from plague
>> at the time we switched.
>
> If koji will keep packages forever that would be good.
> Thanks.

No it doesn't. Packages are retained for a certain amount of time but
not forever due to space reasons.



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