On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:08:42PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > In order to trigger removal of the old digests, all that we have to do is add > a > file named manifest1_obsolete to the root of the repository. Presence of that > file causes repoman to automatically remove the old digests upon commit. If > people don't update their whole cvs tree then they are likely to miss this > file > which will cause them to generate the old digest files and add them back to > the > tree unnecessarily. If that happens then it's not a major problem but we > should > try to make sure that everybody gets the file in order to prevent confusion. Related to the top level of the tree, can we get a release of repoman that detects if a checkout is a subset only (eg no top level), for folk that have subtree checkouts only? (Probably look for skel.*/profile items two levels up).
> After we've added the manifest1_obsolete file we can either let the old digest > files disappear gradually or we can actively remove them. It's possible to > use > repoman to remove them from a single package, from a whole category, or from > the > whole tree at once. The repoman --force option can be used to make it work > faster by skipping dependency checks. If we want to actively remove them then > the best approach is probably to use repoman to remove them from one category > at > a time. I vote for actively removing them. I can do big commits like that on the CVS server, and save the network turnaround time that would happen otherwise. > If there are no objections then I don't so any reason not to go ahead and add > the manifest1_obsolete sometime in the near future. Thoughts? Let's do it. I look forward to a lot less inodes on my disks. Doing some rough calculations: ~6700/12400 packages have only digests in their files/ directory. CVS overhead removal from pruned files/ directories: 6700*5 = 33500 inodes (3 files in CVS/, plus 2 directories). Removal of direct digest-$PV files: 25335 files, 1 inode per file. ===== 58835 inodes total ===== -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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