multiple sources versions in lookaside cache

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 17:19:34 UTC 2010


On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:14:01 -0600 (CST), Mike wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to download sources for a package and it seems the cache
> > hosts several older releases (see below). Is it the normal/intended
> > behavior?
> >
> 
> At the moment we keep everything forever.  I notice your 'sources' file
> has all the sources listed in it, that's why it is downloading multiple
> sources.

And which likely is due to using "make upload FILES=..." rather than "make
new-sources FILES=...". Use the latter if you want to _replace_ the
contents of the "sources" and .cvsignore files when doing a version
upgrade.

> You can delete all but the one you want from your sources file
> (in each branch)


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