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

Thu Oct 11 09:53:56 UTC 2007
Tru Huynh <tru at pasteur.fr>

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 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
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