Hi Tomas,
I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat. The NOC have let us know that
we’re getting low on diskspace on the CPAN master. This is caused by old
(superseded) releases being retained in CPAN author directories. So we’ve
identified the authors who can free up the most diskspace by deleting old
releases from their author directory.
Your CPAN directory has a lot of old releases of Net-IP-LPM and Net-NfDump:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TP/TPODER/
Deleting old releases of Net-IP-LPM and Net-NfDump will free up a good chunk of
space.
Everything you’ve ever released to CPAN will always be available in your
BackPAN directory:
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TP/TPODER/
There are at least 3 ways we can make this happen:
1. you could use the script here:
https://gist.github.com/xdg/1739bea8ef36c4a48e4d2969bc31bf38
2. you can manually mark files for deletion via the PAUSE interface
3. you can give me permission to do this on your behalf
The script mentioned in (1) was written by David Golden and Rik Signes. It
keeps all developer releases later than a stable release, keeps up to 3 stable
releases, and deletes everything else. Use at your own risk, of course.
If you give me permission, I would delete everything other than the latest
release for anything older than a year, and 3 releases of anything less than a
year old. When marked for deletion, you’d have 3 days to check and revert
anything you’re not happy with, before PAUSE would actually delete them.
Thanks for your help — please ask if anything isn’t clear, or if you want to
suggest something else.
Cheers,
Neil
