On 02/18/2016 01:56 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:24:58 -0700 > Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] >> 1. Packages will never disappear. [They don't disappear from Fedora 12 >> even if it is archived.. ] > > To my understanding we never made this promise. We should try and > communicate why it's NOT something we promise.
Could you elaborate on this please? I have asked before, but didn't really get an answer. I don't understand this. One of the reasons why I run my own mirror for my server farm is so that I can rsync mirror EPEL _without_ doing a delete. Why? Because this happens to me _all_ the time: Day 1: Install package from EPEL. Day 2: What do you mean the package isn't found? Look at main repo. Shit. Package was there yesterday! Dig through mailing list for an hour until I find a reason (some times I don't find a reason at all and have to dig through Fedora's Koji for one). I get that there are a dozen valid reasons for a package to no longer be updated, but as long as it keeps working I don't understand why it has to be deleted. I have a couple dozen packages that I still install for my user base that haven't been in the main EPEL repo in a year. My mirror for just 6 & 7 is ~100GB now. Small price for me since it doesn't delete which has saved my butt numerous times when a package suddenly disappears. Thanks! ~Stack~
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