On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
Hi Peter,
I already proposed [writing a script which keeps the last two versions of everything] but there was no response and it looks like it is still an issue.
yes, this is still an issue. If you have the chance to write a script that can automatically expire old files from the binary repository, then I'd very much like to have it! We can use Cron to run it on the server, or we could integrate it into the "makeworld" script so that it's being run every time we update the repository. I guess the only tricky part is figuring out which packages are "obsolete", i.e. no longer referenced by the "haskell.db.tar.gz" file.
The repo db should always only refer to the latest version of a package, all other packages are obsolete. Calling repo-add on a package will *replace* any previous entry, and there can be at most one previous entry. So finding out which package is obsolete is actually fairly simple. Please take a look at the script I attached to my previous email in this thread, I think it'll only need minor modifications to do this. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay