On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:50:16 +0100, Peter Simons
Hi guys,
yesterday, I tried to install "haskell-pandoc" on a Linux/i686 machine, but Pacman was unable to download that binary package, because the file
haskell-pandoc-1.6.0.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
had been deleted from the server, probably because an update to version 1.8.0.1-1 had become available. After figuring that out, I updated my database with "pacman -Sy", and that fixed the problem.
Still, I would have preferred the 1.6.0.1-2 version to remain available for some reasonable grace period, like 1 or 2 weeks. Our repository is extremely small,
$ du -sh ~haskell/* 75M /srv/haskell/i686 66M /srv/haskell/x86_64
..., so I guess it won't hurt to keep older packages around for a little while even after an update. Please don't delete any packages from that repository unless there's a good reason to, i.e. that they've been outdated for (at least) several days.
I don't know how you (the team) sync the repository, but I find it easier to remove the old version and add the new at the same time. A way to mitigate this would be to either keep at kill list of files to remove and when and/or having a separate repo for these archives. Best regards, -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr