On Tuesday 20 January 2004 01:36 pm, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> But where are the spec files and other stuff that belongs into the old
> RPMs? Just the source releases are not enough if someone needs to deal
> with old systems. And since you mentioned it, creating a source
> tarball from CVS does
Lamar Owen wrote:
> While disk may be cheap, it ain't so cheap that wasting it is a good
> thing. With the source releases still available way back, havng
> binaries that old, while useful to some, is not IMO in the best
> interest of all.
But where are the spec files and other stuff that belongs
Dear Lamar Owen ,
Since we are keeping
all source releases (although I would question that, since we use CVS),
keeping all the binaries around is just a space waster, IMHO.
Comments?
Keeping 7.X and then 7.X.y where y is the last minor version for 7.X is
fine
As you would have noticed from
On Monday 19 January 2004 03:53 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the ftp
> > site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old
> > binaries. What I was thinking would be to remove all bu
On Monday 19 January 2004 19:35, Lamar Owen wrote:
> What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last minor release of
> each major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but leave 7.4.1.
Perhaps check the download figures for each first?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 20 January 2004 00:21
> To: Lamar Owen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Old binary packages.
>
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I am looking at the possibility of cleaning u
Lamar Owen wrote:
> I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the
> ftp site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old
> binaries. What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last
> minor release of each major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the ftp
> site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old binaries.
> What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last minor release of each
> major version. Thus,
Lamar Owen wrote:
I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the ftp
site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old binaries.
What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last minor release of each
major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but lea
