Description of problem: I can't find some old packages in updates. It's a feature or a bug? :-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): For example package from Fedora Core 3: xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13 How reproducible: Look at: http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/SRPMS/ Steps to Reproduce: wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/ -O - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's,.*<a href="\([^"]*\)".*,\1,' | grep xorg Actual results: fonts-xorg-6.8.2-0.FC3.1.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2.src.rpm Expected results: fonts-xorg-6.8.2-0.FC3.1.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.1.src.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2.src.rpm ... Additional info: I'm searching the old packages because of searching some old bug in xorg (LID switch corupts video in i810 for xorg > 6.8.2-1.FC3.13). I think for such rare cases can be good to keep whole history of all official releases and updates... Thank you, Frantisek
Our updates are pruned so that we aren't keeping many copies of oudated updates on the file server. Mirrors appreciate this greately. We can't keep every copy of every outdated update as it grows the space needed quite significantly (think of a couple OO.org updates or kernel udpates). If you think you need every update, do rsync from a mirror w/out the --delete option.