[csw-maintainers] Garbage collection in allpkgs

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 30.12.2012 um 20:21 schrieb Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>> The 'allpkgs' directory does contain a history of packages, but it
>> doesn't contain all transient (and often broken) 19 different versions
>> of MySQL that happened to be in unstable for 2 days, but only the 3 or
>> 4 versions that are actually used somewhere in our catalogs. I thought
>> that was good enough. If you disagree, I will put the 24GB of junk
>> back in allpkgs; but I remain unconvinced that they are actually
>> useful.
> 
> Isn't the set allpkgs the union of all the named releases, e.g. dublin,
> kiel, &c. ?

No, allpkgs is the collection of all packages ever released to any
of the catalogs (with the exception of experimental).

> If that is true we must offer only that. To offer all the
> instances of our packages that were produced over the time can be a
> waste of resources, material and spiritual, i.e. is very difficult for
> someone to create a coherent set of that even if he's perusing the
> source control system's history of the recipes. Consequently, I support
> Maciej proposition.

It is meant as a reference for reproducing issues. Also I compare
old versions of a package with a recent one from time to time if
I think we have a regression.


Best regards

  -- Dago


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