[Moving this discussion to -policy, please remove -devel from headers if following up]
[The issue here is whether the archives should automatically keep backups, in case of harmful upgrades like the recent libc6] --On Mon, Jul 6, 1998 4:49 pm +1000 "Herbert Xu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> While I agree, the current management of the archives makes this quite >> difficult, as there isn't sufficient archive space to keep every old >> version of every package, which is the only way to be "absolutely" safe. > > I'm not sure if I need old deb files but I have always wanted an archive of old > diff files though. > It seems to me that the appropriate answer is just this - to keep diff files, which should be much smaller. And possibly the archive either needs orig.tar.gz, or it needs a URL from which it can retrieve it (this is a possible candidate for a field in the .dsc file - URL to retrieve upstream source). Then automated scripts on the archive could rebuild old versions if required. Comments? Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem - | | and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC) | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
