[OM Cooker] Slimming down our repo.... Howto... : removing obsolete srpms

Andreas Schneider dajudge61 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 17:36:48 EST 2016


Hi, often its a mistake to remove older srpms, they can still be a source
in case with newer something needs to be fixed, i managed it like this. one
more Dir name obsolete and again a genhdlist2

Regards
Joerg

2016-01-08 21:34 GMT+01:00 Matthew Dawkins <mattydaw at gmail.com>:

> So if we wanna make life easier on ourselves we should first thing after
> the "#3" Release purge obsolete SRPMs from our repo.
>
> This is gonna take a few steps but first we need to know what packages
> l'users are actually installing. So, we ask people to take a new install
> and plump_it_up. Install all their favorite applications for a normal
> install.
>
> Then, we ask them to send us their install list.... Easy to do.
> rpm -qa --qf "%{sourcerpm}\n" | sort -u > send_to_us.list
>
> We over several months compile a complete list of all our l'user base and
> begin a mass build of only the packages in that list. We also scour the
> BuildRequires pulled in for the build of each package and so on and so
> forth.
>
> After a few iterations we should have a very comprehensive and complete
> list of the Required SRPMs for main repo. The rest literally should be
> moved to Contribs or plainly retired.
>
> I'd guess we'll end up with around 5k SRPMs when this is said and done and
> that would be a lot nicer to manage than whatever we have now.
>
> Regards,
> Matt
>
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