Bug 141155

Summary:	fedora updates directory on ftp server needs tidying
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alex Butcher <bugzilla>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	nobody+pnasrat, rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386
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Description Alex Butcher 2004-11-29 18:03:33 UTC

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Description of problem:
There are duplicate versions of slang, slang-devel and redhat-menus in
the updates directory of the FTP site. This is a PITA.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log into ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com
2. enter fc3 i386 updates directory
3. obtain a directory listing
    

Actual Results:  ftp> dir slang*
227 Entering Passive Mode (66,187,224,20,56,192)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r--    2 ftp      ftp        389990 Nov 19 21:46
slang-1.4.9-13.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    2 ftp      ftp        389798 Nov 08 19:36
slang-1.4.9-7.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp        532792 Nov 19 21:46
slang-devel-1.4.9-13.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp        532531 Nov 08 19:36
slang-devel-1.4.9-7.i386.rpm
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> dir redhat-menu*
227 Entering Passive Mode (66,187,224,20,42,17)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r--    2 ftp      ftp        154274 Nov 22 21:08
redhat-menus-3.7-2.2.fc3.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--    2 ftp      ftp        155024 Nov 23 01:56
redhat-menus-3.7.1-1.fc3.noarch.rpm
226 Directory send OK.

Expected Results:  No duplicate packages

Additional info:

Comment 1 Paul Nasrat 2004-11-29 18:13:40 UTC

Reassign to distribution.

Note using a depsolver such as up2date/yum will use repodata/headers
and choose the right package, and is the preferred method of updating.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2004-11-29 20:44:36 UTC

Older versions are kept for (roughly) a month, and then removed.

Comment 3 Jason Baron 2004-12-20 18:33:06 UTC

*** Bug 136645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***