On 02/02/11 22:16, Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:50:16 +0100, Peter Simons <sim...@cryp.to> wrote: >> 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 outdated for (at least) several days.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.
I've recently found the tool repo-clean (in AUR) for doing this. > 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. Are there any tools that would make it easier to maintain such a kill list? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
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