Infrastructure repo

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:28:22AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:40:34 -0700
> Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:47:52PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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... 
> > > 
> > For things that we're no longer using because there's a newer version
> > in EPEL/RHEL/etc, we probably want to delete them.  Sometimes we have
> > newer versions there because we need to deploy some changes
> > immediately and they need a newer package of a dependency (or we pull
> > a new build from koji directly instead of waiting for the build to
> > enter EPEL-testing).  Once those sorts of packages make it into the
> > official repos, we no longer need to keep the old packages in
> > infra.fp.o
> 
> How about this: 
> 
> * always keep the src.rpm around for anything in the SRPMS repo. Since
>   this repo isn't used directly much it shouldn't matter that it grows.
>   If we need an old package for some reason we can just rebuild it. 
> 
We can probably age out and discard those SRPMS as well... I do try to clean
out old releases for fas and pkgdb, for instance.

I do tend to keep at least one older version around -- I suppose that we
could just do that in the SRPM repo and only keep newest in the RPM repo...
although the primary reason to keep older packages is to be able to revert
within the first week or so of a new release in case something is wrong with
an update.  Quick reversion means having the last binary packages stick around.

> * Once per cycle we clean out the i386/x86_64 packages that are no
>   longer installed on any machine.
> 
+1

> (As a side note, I am thinking we should setup a Housekeeping SOP for
> once per cycle a few weeks after release... we can then do this, prune
> people who don't need to be in sysadmin groups anymore, prune hosted
> projects or lists, etc. Of course thats another topic). 

Also +1.

-Toshio
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