[boomboomsubban]

Even Arch has five years worth of kernel releases in their archives, with older versions offloaded to the internet archive.

[mathiasgredal]

Yeah, but regular package binaries get nuked pretty quickly to make space for new ones, especially on mirrors.

[boomboomsubban]

This went from "these ISOs are impossible to find" to "ok, but the packages are impossible to find" to "yeah, but they're not in the regular repos anymore."

If you want to do something unusual, you should expect to jump through a few hoops.