On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 05:24:04PM +0100, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
gesture to at least keep the source RPMs around.
The thing is those copr repos will likely depend on EOLed Fedora repos. Do we keep *those* around? I guess the answer will be different for each mirror. Some will keep those repos for longer, some shorter.
Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org then declared:
To: Stanislav Ochotnicky sochotnicky@redhat.com Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org, Cool Other Package Repositories copr-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: Re: Fedora 18 End of Life Message-ID: 20140116163348.GA29005@disco.bu.edu
We keep them forever, yes....
Now, one thing we don't keep are all of the updates. I believe these are actually retained internally in koji (although I think because we can, not necessarily by policy), but they vanish from the repositories -- both mirror network and archive -- so reproducing the exact build environment may be difficult / annoying.
Reproducing the exact build environment, when I tried to do it years ago, turned out to be practically impossible and not just "difficult". If that could be made easier, that'd be awesome. Storage is cheap.
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