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 <mat...@fedoraproject.org> then declared: > To: Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni...@redhat.com> > Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>, Cool Other Package Repositories > <copr-de...@lists.fedorahosted.org> > Subject: Re: Fedora 18 End of Life > Message-ID: <20140116163348.ga29...@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. --- David A. Wheeler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
