Re: Old binary packages.

On Monday 19 January 2004 03:53 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu> writes:
> > I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the ftp
> > site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old
> > binaries. What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last minor
> > release of each major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but leave
> > 7.4.1.

> I concur with Josh Drake's thought --- leave releases that are less
> than, perhaps, six months old, even if they have been superseded in
> their series. Superseded releases that are older than that could be
> dispensed with.

I'm gong to wait a day or so to see what other input comes through, but this
is the way I'm currently leaning. I will make a full mirror of what is there
now on my own box, and then if somebody screams loudly I can restore things.

While disk may be cheap, it ain't so cheap that wasting it is a good thing.
With the source releases still available way back, havng binaries that old,
while useful to some, is not IMO in the best interest of all.
--
Lamar Owen
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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