Old kernel RPMS

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Mar 14 15:01:53 UTC 2005


man, 14.03.2005 kl. 01.00 skrev Per Bjornsson:
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 18:29 -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> 
> >   Possibly.  I suppose developers can always use cvs to get what they
> > need.  But that still leaves out the problem of older official updates
> > to releases disappearing.  I'll see if I can find that mirror that kept
> > multiple revs of rpms in rawhide...maybe it also had multiple revs back
> > in the updates as well. 
> 
> Probably all of them, otherwise they aren't really mirrors as far as I
> can see:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/
> appears to contain several revs when they have been issued. updates-
> testing I'm less sure about though, but the real releases do seem to be
> kept around - and since the ones that made it into updates-testing and
> got superseded before they were released often had somewhat severe
> problems I don't really think that the lack of an updates-testing
> archive is all that much of a problem.
> 
> /Per

OTOH, somebody migth have the rpm in question in /var/cache/yum




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