Infrastructure repo

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:47 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings. 
> 
> As many of you know, we have our own infrastructure repository. 
> This is used for corner case packages that we need, but cannot be in
> the main EPEL or RHEL repos we use. 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Yum_Repo_SOP
> 
> Some reasons might be: 
> 
> * Theme or branding files that can only be used by us. 
> 
> * Upgrades to base RHEL packages that are needed for producing fedora. 
> 
> * Updates that we need sooner than the EPEL 2 week cycle of testing. 
> 
> * (might be others here?)
> 
> I've added a section to the above SOP: 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Yum_Repo_SOP#Add_information_about_why_the_package_is_in_the_repo
> 
> If we could start noting why we are adding something and who's
> responsible for it, that would be great. :) Also, if someone would like
> to look at whats being used from that repo currently we could fill in
> the info on any of them that are currently active that would be great. 
> 
> In looking at whats in there now, there's a ton of old packages, many
> of which I suspect we are no longer using anywhere at all. Do we want
> to clean this out and move old packages to an archive repo or delete
> them? I guess they are only taking up disk space really... 
> 
> Thoughts/comments welcome. 
> 

I think I can generate a list of machines who have a package installed
from that repo.

we can narrow that way.
I suspect we have a lot of crap in there :)

-sv