[arch-dev-public] reverse staging idea

[Dale Blount]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:10 -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 10:44 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
> > > Since I know there have been complaints about packages remaining in
> > > the ftp directories when new ones are uploaded, how about we modify
> > > the /arch/db-* update scripts run by the devs to move old versions
> > > of updated packages into ~/staging/<repo>/old?
> > >
> >
> > How about an "old" directory stored somewhere on the filesystem
> > accessible by everyone? (incase the update broke something and the
> > maintainer isn't around to restore).
> 
> +1 for it to be a public old directory, as long as people still clean
> it out once in a while.
> 

I was thinking a daily cron that removed files last modified more than a
month ago.


Dale