How to prune out old rpm files from fedora repository?

[Paul Johnson]

I run a server that has updates of RPMs I build for our lab.  The
packages directory is getting too big and fat with 10 or 15 versions
of some RPMS.  I wonder if somebody has a script that can clean out
the older versions?  Something that cooperates with the createRepo
script?

pj

[Todd Zullinger]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> I run a server that has updates of RPMs I build for our lab.  The
> packages directory is getting too big and fat with 10 or 15 versions
> of some RPMS.  I wonder if somebody has a script that can clean out
> the older versions?  Something that cooperates with the createRepo
> script?

I've used the repomanage tool to do this.  Something like this for one
of my local repositories:

repomanage --old $repo | while read package; do
        dir=$(dirname "$package")
        archive="$topdir/archive/$(basename $repo)"
        [ ! -d $archive ] && mkdir -p $archive
        mv "$package" $archive
    done

You might also find some useful snippets in the scripts used to push
Fedora Extras packages (particularly RepoPrune.py):

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/extras-buildsys/utils/pushscript/?root=...

[Ranbir]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:34 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I've used the repomanage tool to do this.  Something like this for one
> of my local repositories:
> repomanage --old $repo | while read package; do
>     dir=$(dirname "$package")
>     archive="$topdir/archive/$(basename $repo)"
>     [ ! -d $archive ] && mkdir -p $archive
>     mv "$package" $archive
> done

This is great, but how would one keep the nightly rsync against the yum
mirror from downloading again all of the RPMs that were pruned from the
local repo?  I looked through the rsync man page, but I didn't see
anything obvious that would apply here.

Regards,

Ranbir

[Todd Zullinger]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:34 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > I've used the repomanage tool to do this.  Something like this for
> > one of my local repositories:
> > repomanage --old $repo | while read package; do
> >     dir=$(dirname "$package")
> >     archive="$topdir/archive/$(basename $repo)"
> >     [ ! -d $archive ] && mkdir -p $archive
> >     mv "$package" $archive
> > done
>
> This is great, but how would one keep the nightly rsync against the
> yum mirror from downloading again all of the RPMs that were pruned
> from the local repo?  I looked through the rsync man page, but I
> didn't see anything obvious that would apply here.

The official yum repos are pruned already.  You shouldn't need to
reprune them yourself.  There is a suggested rsync invocation for
mirroring Fedora content at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring

It is:

rsync -vaH --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES} --numeric-ids --delete \
      --delete-after --delay-updates \
      rsync://download.fedora.redhat.com/fedora-enchilada ${LOCAL_DIR}

See the wiki page for more details.

If that doesn't exclude everything that you want, you can use an
exclude file.  You could even populate that file with the results of
the repomanage output I suppose.  But I don't think that is generally
necessary is you mirror things like the wiki suggests.  The repomanage
snippet above is what I use on my person repository of packages I
create locally.