* Vagrant Cascadian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050517 04:23]:
> it would be great if there was an option to not delete obsoleted
> packages when a newer version is installed, similar to mini-dinstall's
> keep_old option. this would make it easier to maintain an archive with
> all the historical versions of a package(or packages).
That is quite complicated to implement. The current database structure
assumes there is at most one version of each package in each target
(as I internally call each distribution-component-architecture-type
unit, i.e. each Packages or Soruces files). I doubt this is easily
implementable.
It's on my very-far-goals list as this would also be needed to keep
all sources in case of diverging versions amoung different
architectures, though I fear it is realy far away.
The only thing near this is the --keepunreferencedfiles option, which
globally does not delete or forget any old files, but keeps them
unreferenced (but remembering their names and md5sums) in the pool/ hirachy.
If there is the need, I could look into adding a global config to
make such a option switchable by some to be implemented global config.
> thanks for considering these features- reprepro looks pretty ideal for
> some of my package archiving needs.
Thanks.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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