General question here for a total newbie here, but how far back does the centos repository keep its RPM's?
For example, if a new version of cups-devel comes out, what happens to the previous version of the cups-devel RPM? Does it remain in the repository? Does it get overwritten? What if we have to revert back to the older version of the RPM?
Thank you....
J
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:26:09AM -0700, John Lee wrote:
General question here for a total newbie here, but how far back does the centos repository keep its RPM's?
As long as it takes to keep a quaterly update. Then it's included in the base repo.
For example, if a new version of cups-devel comes out, what happens to the previous version of the cups-devel RPM? Does it remain in the repository?
it stays there, but is not used (should not).
Does it get overwritten? What if we have to revert back to the older version of the RPM?
yum install your-previous-version.
Tru
By quarterly do you mean typically 4 months?
Like for example, if you look at tzdata rpm in the centos-4.5 repository, you have:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 445K Jul 22 09:29 tzdata-2007f-1.el4.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 448K Oct 6 04:02 tzdata-2007h-1.el4.noarch.rpm
So do you mean by January of next year they will automatically remove tzdata-2007f-1.el4? Or 4 months from the release date (Oct 6th)?
And as an FYI, "yum install older-version-of-rpm" didnt work for me after I upgrade tzdata.
Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): tzdata-2007h-1.el4 100% |=========================| 448 kB 00:00 (2/2): elinks-0.9.2-3.3.5 100% |=========================| 839 kB 00:00 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : elinks ######################### [1/4] Updating : tzdata ######################### [2/4] Cleanup : tzdata ######################### [3/4] Cleanup : elinks ######################### [4/4]
Updated: elinks.i386 0:0.9.2-3.3.5.2 tzdata.noarch 0:2007h-1.el4 Complete!
[root@hdnoc ~]# yum install tzdata-2007f-1.el4 Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 167 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tru Huynh" tru@pasteur.fr To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." centos-mirror@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] How long does centos repository keep its oldrpm's?
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:26:09AM -0700, John Lee wrote:
General question here for a total newbie here, but how far back does the centos repository keep its RPM's?
As long as it takes to keep a quaterly update. Then it's included in the base repo.
For example, if a new version of cups-devel comes out, what happens to the previous version of the cups-devel RPM? Does it remain in the repository?
it stays there, but is not used (should not).
Does it get overwritten? What if we have to revert back to the older version of the RPM?
yum install your-previous-version.
Tru
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Don't top post, please! And trim your reply... :P
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:24:16PM -0700, John Lee wrote:
By quarterly do you mean typically 4 months?
each point release
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Updated: elinks.i386 0:0.9.2-3.3.5.2 tzdata.noarch 0:2007h-1.el4 Complete!
[root@hdnoc ~]# yum install tzdata-2007f-1.el4 Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files 167 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
What do you expect? you already have tzdata installed (tzdata 2007h-1.el4) You can't have 2 versions of the same package. And that off-topic for this mailing list.
Tru
John Lee wrote:
By quarterly do you mean typically 4 months?
each point release
So it keeps the last four releases?
CentOS keeps the last point release for each version that is published.
SO ... for now that would be all:
2.1 3.9 4.5 5.0
(RPMS, SRPMS, ISOS, etc.)
When 5.1 is released, 5.0 will be moved to vault ... when 4.6 is released, 4.5 will be moved to vault, etc.
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