[CentOS-devel] yum being aware of earlier releases

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> The way we ship centos-release right now, it only 'sees' the latest 
> release, so in the CentOS-5 tree, at the moment you can only 'see' 
> 5.3/

How would that play out with the current habit of soft-linking 5.2/ to 
5.3/ when 5.2 content disappears from the mirrors ? Right now, this 
forces an update to 5.3 when the content is removed.

Is the old content going to be kept on the mirrors or only on vault ? 
Is then vault able to take the load ?

> yum --enablerepo=base-5.2 --enablerepo=updates-5.2 --show duplicates
> list kernel

I vote for this one. While more complicated, it also allows queries of 
'give me only release packages' with something like:

yum --enablerepo=base-5.2 --enablerepo=base-5.1 --enablerepo=base-5.0 --show duplicates list kernel

This is also simpler to maintain, as the metadata would not differ 
from the one which exists when f.e. 5.2 is declared obsolete. The 
base+updates solution would require regenerating metadata.

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