Re: Old binary packages.

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Old binary packages.
Date: 2004-01-19 20:00:25
Message-ID: 400C3759.9020706@commandprompt.com
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Lamar Owen wrote:

>I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the ftp
>site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old binaries.
>What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last minor release of each
>major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but leave 7.4.1. The space taken
>by binaries is significant (about 1GB at this point). Since we are keeping
>all source releases (although I would question that, since we use CVS),
>keeping all the binaries around is just a space waster, IMHO.
>
>
>
I would keep 7.3.5, 7.4, 7.4.1 (as 7.4 is the current release) and then
do as you suggest
for the older binaries.

J

>Comments?
>
>

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