From: | Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Old binary packages. |
Date: | 2004-01-20 15:03:25 |
Message-ID: | 200401201003.25195.lowen@pari.edu |
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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 than, perhaps, six months old, even if they have been superseded in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 Superseded releases that are older than that could be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
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC 28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu
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