Re: Old binary packages.

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.

Unless you know that someone is actually running out of space, I think 
it would be better to keep past releases around.  I've needed them more 
often than you would think.