On 07/12/09 23:19, Brian Mathis wrote:
Not true, and it's the thing that's most irritating about this policy. The RPMs are still there, just not the sqlite repodata files that yum needs. So if you got to a mirror, you can see all of the files, but yum doesn't work.
well, Brian - you seem to be looking in the wrong place, also you are mistaken about requirements for sqlite data. So, here is where it stands:
5.3 has not been moved to vault.c.o as yet, due to disk space issues, we should have that resolved in the next few weeks. Once its moved, it will exist there for as long as we are able to keep it ( we still have all of 2.1 / 3.* / 4.* and 5.* so far )
all metadata for 5.3 is still available in the right place. eg: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/updates/i386/repodata/ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/os/i386/repodata/
Every release ever done by CentOS stays public, and we make every effort to keep atleast the binary and source files available ( so this best-effort-warranty does not extend to debuginfo pkgs ).
hth
- KB