Orion Poplawski wrote: Our public repositories contain only the latest build of a particular package for the development tree, or latest update build for a given OS release. Once a new package is built and made available, the old ones are pruned from the repositories. With our new 'brew' buildsystem, it appears that every build gets kept internally in brew's repository trees, although I'm not sure if it has a garbage collection policy or not. With our older 'beehive' buildsystem, it had a garbage collection policy which I believe defaulted to keeping the last 3 builds around, but purging all builds before that. A developer could configure the buildsystem to change the garbage collection policy for a given build, and some have done so. So, in theory at least, we do have some binary builds kept internally for various packages, however these are not mirrored publicly anywhere I don't believe. The easiest way to obtain older rpms is to make a CVS checkout from public Fedora CVS, and rebuild the package with mock. That will not give a 100% identical copy of the original binaries however, as your system may contain a newer compiler, or other newer or older packages than what was originally used to build the package at Red Hat. In most cases, this should not matter, but there could be cases where something has changed over time which could cause the build to fail, or cause the build to succeed but produce software that works differently. The only way to obtain the exact binaries that were released previously, is to keep copies of all binaries released over time into your own cache of rpms, in case you need them again. Alternatively, you may be able to obtain an older build from the maintainer of the given package by asking them nicely - but that should be done with discretion as a last resort as it doesn't scale well, and developers probably would not like to start getting lots of daily requests for older packages from tens or hundreds of people. ;o) Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca Proud Canadian.