On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:33:49PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >If a Fedora package update is released, and then another update is >released, I don't think that the first remains available under current >operating procedures. > >I think that it would be useful to keep the package available. > >I just experienced a case where I needed this. xorg-x11-drv-ati was >upgraded to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 in December and then >upgraded to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 recently. > >xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 does not work on my system. So >I needed to downgrade to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64. >As far as I know, there is no distribution point for >xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64. Luckily, I found it on a >mirror that had gone stale. > >I think that there should be an official site that preserves all >released updates, not just the current ones. The builds can be found in koji for quite a while after the update is superceded. >I also wonder if there is some provision of the GPL that requires at >least the source files of obsoleted updates to remain available. The All of the sources are available in CVS. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
