[arch-devops] Cleaning up archive.archlinux.org

[Levente Polyak]

On July 6, 2017 12:22:11 AM GMT+02:00, Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini at archlinux.org> wrote:
>Em julho 5, 2017 15:57 Florian via arch-devops escreveu:
>> My gut says 6 months should be enough, but feel free to disagree.
>>
>
>Agree with 6 months. More than enough time for issues to appear and
>people to
>need the archive.
>


Well it will be bit more complicated then that. One we finally get the reproducible builds patches live we will need the archives for the reproducer script to build such package again. If we simply clean by date we will loose the possibility to rebuild certain packages that don't require a rebuild of something but we're using a specific version with its specific behaviors during build time. 

I'm not sure how to tackle this while not loosing reproducibility, but we certainly should think about this scenario before doing time based cleanups. 

Cheers, 
Levente