superseded update packages should be preserved

[yersinia]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:33 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>wrote:

> If a Fedora package update is released, and then another update is
> released, I don't think that the first remains available under current
> operating procedures.
>
> I think that it would be useful to keep the package available.
>
> I just experienced a case where I needed this.  xorg-x11-drv-ati was
> upgraded to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 in December and then
> upgraded to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 recently.
>
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 does not work on my system.  So
> I needed to downgrade to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64.
> As far as I know, there is no distribution point for
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64.  Luckily, I found it on a
> mirror that had gone stale.
>

In fact it is strange - for me almost - that exist only the pre release with
version 54.fc10 in the core repo, that if i want can install , and not exist
on the update repo all the following release. A space problem ?

#yum --showduplicates list xorg-x11-drv-ati
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
xorg-x11-drv-ati.x86_64
6.10.0-1.fc10
installed
Available Packages
*xorg-x11-drv-ati.x86_64
6.9.0-54.fc10                                                         fedora
*xorg-x11-drv-ati.x86_64
6.10.0-1.fc10
updates
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