[arch-dev-public] reverse staging idea

[Dan McGee]

On 6/18/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:11:26AM -0400, Dale Blount wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Is it really safe to say that all packages are updated within a month?  I
> know I haven't updated lots of my packages in more than a month (because
> they haven't had any updates!).

This is something that cleans them out of the old/ directory only,
where they are automatically moved to after you run one of the
/arch/db-* scripts, I assume. So this will have no direct effect on
the ftp directories.

-Dan