On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:05 +0400 Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be > available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where > one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my > case, or to downgrade some packages. I think CentOS had fuse in their centosplus repo (along with a kernel that had fuse modules). Perhaps try there? Now that we are using koji, it should keep all builds we ever do, but of course we only were able to import all the ones we had from plague at the time we switched.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:05 +0400 >> Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> > I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be >> > available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where >> > one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my >> > case, or to downgrade some packages. >> >> Now that we are using koji, it should keep all builds we ever do, but >> of course we only were able to import all the ones we had from plague >> at the time we switched. > > If koji will keep packages forever that would be good. > Thanks. No it doesn't. Packages are retained for a certain amount of time but not forever due to space reasons.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 20:58 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:05 +0400 >> >> Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> >> > I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be >> >> > available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where >> >> > one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my >> >> > case, or to downgrade some packages. >> >> >> >> Now that we are using koji, it should keep all builds we ever do, but >> >> of course we only were able to import all the ones we had from plague >> >> at the time we switched. >> > >> > If koji will keep packages forever that would be good. >> > Thanks. >> >> No it doesn't. Packages are retained for a certain amount of time but >> not forever due to space reasons. > > Then, some place with enough storage space should be found. Like > archive.fedoraproject.org. There is even FC-1 that was released several > years ago could be found, but EPEL package that was there month ago is > gone. > Well to answer your first question that started this off.. EPEL does not have any FUSE packages nor has it because kernel packages have been verbotten. rpmrepo or rpmfusion might have had them but not EPEL.

One the second, archive.fedoraproject.org deals with releases. Not every package that was released for a fedora is kept forever. A release is kept and the last update to a package in that release is kept. But if 20 updates occurred between the two, those aren't kept. EPEL does not have 'releases' in the same manner Fedoraproject does and so it only keeps the latest package around. Trying to keep around terabytes of packages around is beyond what this volunteer part can deal with.

Hi. I was looking today for old fuse from EPEL and was unable to find it. Seems, that packages that are moved to main RHEL (fuse is in 5.4 now) are purged completely. I think, that all EPEL packages there were ever released should be available somewhere. It could be useful in situation like mine where one need to install package on old system - it was CentOS 5.3 in my case, or to downgrade some packages. Alexey