[CentOS-mirror] How long does centos repository keep its oldrpm's?

[John Lee]

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 at 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 at pasteur.fr>
To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." <centos-mirror at 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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