Re: RPM Morgue

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: pgsql-pkg-yum <pgsql-pkg-yum(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RPM Morgue
Date: 2018-06-25 07:27:53
Message-ID: 20180625072753.GA30863@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Craig Ringer 2018-06-25 <CAMsr+YHGvn-7nyFUncdVHR_Q5i2Kc19jy_RAvmt-g9O5iMKUqg(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> The apt.postgresql.org crew have a package morgue for old versions at
> atalia.postgresql.org/morgue/ . It's not a full repo, but you can fish out
> needed packages manually and install them. This is a *lifesaver* when
> trying to examine a core file a customer system where debuginfo wasn't
> installed, or trying to reproduce a subtle version-specific issue.

Fwiw, the reason I set it up is because our repo software (reprepro)
doesn't support keeping the past N versions of every package around.
The yum repo keeps the last 3 versions in place, I believe. But of
course that doesn't help if $customer didn't upgrade for $long.

Christoph

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