I am not sure whether by "all historical updates" you are only referring to all updates being listed in updateinfo.xml, or all history generally (including old packages). But in the latter case, note that keeping all updates massively inflates the storage requirements for maintaining a copy of the repo, which many (or even most) corporate users do. This is not a huge problem, generally, but it's also not ideal, and probably isn't the right tradeoff for Fedora.
Here[0] for example is RHEL 8 baseos and appstream, for which the difference between storing "only the latest package" and "all the packages listed" is 20x and 10x, respectively. Metadata size would likewise be larger, meaning DNF clients have more to download. [0] [dalley@thinkpad repos]$ rpmrepo details el8-baseos ... Number of packages: 12910 Number of unique packages (latest version): 1798 Number of packages (latest 3 versions): 4459 Packages total size: 23.82 GB Packages total size (latest version): 1.4 GB Packages total size (latest 3 versions): 4.03 GB [dalley@thinkpad repos]$ rpmrepo details el8-appstream ... Number of packages: 29103 Number of unique packages (latest version): 5902 Number of packages (latest 3 versions): 12988 Packages total size: 92.91 GB Packages total size (latest version): 9.12 GB Packages total size (latest 3 versions): 23.91 GB _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
