From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.18 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:
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.
Older versions are kept for (roughly) a month, and then removed.
*** Bug 136645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***