[Box-Admins] Wiping Eliot's versions Re: [squeak-dev] automated way to delete specific trunk packages?

[Tobias Pape]

On 11.05.2015, at 02:29, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> 
>> On 09.05.2015, at 19:57, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 9 May 2015, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 09.05.2015, at 19:43, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The easiest way to do it is to access it via RFB/VNC. Either load some version of the RFB package during startup (and then configure it), or start a native vnc server, and restart the VM on its display.
>>>>> I don't suggest using xpra on this server, because it tends to use quite a lot of memory.
>>>> 
>>>> So this means the vm has to be killed before? :/
>>> 
>>> I don't think the Seaside console is enabled, so yes.
>>> 
>> 
>> Then i can't do it before monday.
>> Anybody else to take a chance?
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 	-Tobias
> 
> 
> Tobias,
> 
> I did not have time to follow up on this, but I will do so Monday evening
> if you (or someone else) has not been able to do it.
> 
> In addition to deleting files from the file system, here is what I think
> needs to be done in the SS image (please tell me if I am wrong):
> 
>  allVersions := (SSRepository current projectAt: 'trunk') versions.
>  spurEntries := allVersions keys  select: [:e | '*spur*' match: e name ].
>  spurEntries do: [ :e | allVersions removeKey: e ].


No that does not work.
Sending #versions to a SSProject just yields a copy of the actual versions
with all 'deleted' marked versions being ommitted;
see my code example…

Best
	-Tobias

> 
> If I make the changes I'll just download the image, fix it, and load it
> back to box4.squeak.org. The ss.log file will tell us if any updates were
> missed, so I think this will be good enough (but we should get the VNC
> service working too).
> 
> @eliot Sorry this is not a quick fix, but please see the box-admins posts
> here to see what is being done:
> 
>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/box-admins/2015-May/date.html
> 
> Dave