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Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] The frustration of updating
From: Peter Poeml <poeml () suse ! de>
Date: 2009-02-17 17:46:04
Message-ID: 20090217174604.GY14919 () suse ! de
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:05:09PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>
> > Am Dienstag 27 Januar 2009 schrieb Richard Guenther:
> > >
> > > I assume files have "full" names including version and build. So why
> > > not just keep old files around so that old meta-data does not get
> > > invalidated by partial updates?
> >
> > "Why not just"? It's 14G without source and debuginfo. How many of those
> > copies do you think our mirrors would prefer to have?
>
> I hope it will be a lot less if we improve on not syncing out identical
> packages. But, indeed - "just". It's useful to be able to revert
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> a package to a previously known good state as well.
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That's a good point indeed. I would be nice to arrange delayed deletion
of packages in a way that there's always one previous package version.
Would be highly convenient for manual repair of breakage.
Peter
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