[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-cacher-ng - 3.1-1

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apt-cacher-ng (3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
+ removed doc references to distkill.pl (closes: #877703, LP: #1635029)
+ includes fix for rare expiration failure on missing index files
  (closes: #872830)
+ fixes credential printing in logs (closes: #877135)
+ hardens default pass-through mask for bugs.debian.org (closes: #874349)
  * Portuguese translation update (by Traduz, closes: #874609)
  * Policy definition and build-deps update (no related changes)

 -- Eduard Bloch   Sun, 05 Nov 2017 20:55:20 +0100

** Changed in: apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Harald Hetzner]

Thanks again Eduard, for submitting the improvement proposal to the
project's todo list.

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[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Eduard Bloch]

Right, and at least the last part can be automated. Since this is all
web stuff, there could be a link on the main control page called like
"Update indexes and show distro removal overview".

Actually, using a special link for this is something that should exist
anyway. Because ATM the expiration thing would abort if the distro has
already disappeared from the mirrors and cannot be downloaded. Having a
special entry mode for cleanup purposes could bypass this, i.e. continue
to the cleanup overview even if an update error happened.

I cannot reproduce the part about "Slow Firefox". My PC here is ~7 years
old and the cache directory is littered with lots of stuff and still I
can use it without any issue in regular FF.

https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=apt-
cacher-ng/apt-cacher-
ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=245b9a27c569e7e229446fe808d9a1936bec7551

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[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Harald Hetzner]

Thanks Eduard!

Based on your hint, I was able to figure out what needs to be done:

1. Open http://:3142/acng-report.html in the browser
2. Click "Start Scan and/or Expiration" button
3. Wait for the scan to finish
4. After the scan has finished, navigate to "Allocated disk space (Top 10, show 
more / cleanup)" at the bottom of the page and click the link "show more / 
cleanup"
5. Select the check boxes left to all listed release files, we want to get rid 
of (seems to put a lot of load on my Firefox as checking the boxes and 
scrolling made the browser freeze a lot)
6. At the bottom of the page, click the button "Delete selected files"
7. On the next page, click the button "Delete files"

So it is not the apt-cacher-ng package that has a bug, but the
documentation on the German Ubuntu wiki that is outdated.

Unfortunately, the procedure above is not really straight forward. Even
in case that you have already navigated to the apt-cacher-ng browser
page. It is not really intuitive that you have to click the tiny link
"show more / cleanup" in order to start making all the old distro
killing happen.

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[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Eduard Bloch]

I remember vaguely that it has been dropped in favor of the new deletion
assistant on the expiration page (scroll down the log page after running
expiration task).

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[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Simon Déziel]

@Harald, this seems to be a bug in how upstream generates the package.
Also, since this package is in Universe, it would be best if you could
report it to Debian directly.

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[Bug 1635029] Re: apt-cacher-ng in yakkety lacks distkill.pl

[Simon Déziel]

The distkill.pl script was last shipped with Trusty's version.

** Changed in: apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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