Hi Eliot,

See also the reply from Tobias:

> There are ways to do that; with access to the sso-image, it would take me
> roughly an hour to two do that cleanly.
>
> Best regards
>         -Tobias

Yes I have access and could delete the files, but it needs to be done
cleanly as Tobias says because the SS image has all of the information,
and the files are really just backing the image up.

I am away and cannot do anything until tomorrow, but I would rather defer
to Tobias on this one, as he is more knowledgeable about SS overall.

Tobias, I think we need to give you an account on box4. Levente
(box-admins lead) can do this, or I can do it tomorrow.

Note - there is a #box-admin channel on Slack that is helpful for handling
issues like this (as well as the box-admins list).

Dave


> Hi David,
>
>      it is always possible to fix it another way but it would be hugely
> expensive.  The only affordable way I know is to delete the existing
> files and upload new ones.  Can someone who has access to the box
> simply login with either ash or FTP and delete them with a single
> command?  If I had access to the box that is what I would do.
>
> Eliot (phone)
>
> On May 7, 2015, at 7:19 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:58:55PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>    I need to delete all the patched Spur packages in trunk to ensure
>>> that
>>> correctly patched versions replace them.  Is there an automated way of
>>> deleting packages on trunk?  I've used the web interface, but it'll
>>> take
>>> all day :-(
>>> --
>>> best,
>>> Eliot
>>
>> I don't know the answer to your question, but if I look at the files in
>> the squeaksource repository, there are quite a few:
>>
>>    davidlewis at squeak-box4:/home/squeaksource/sso2/ss/trunk$ ls *spur*mcz
>> | wc -l
>>    246
>>    davidlewis at squeak-box4:/home/squeaksource/sso2/ss/trunk$ ls *spur*mcd
>> | wc -l
>>    152
>>    davidlewis at squeak-box4:/home/squeaksource/sso2/ss/trunk$ ls *spur*mcm
>> | wc -l
>>    33
>>    davidlewis at squeak-box4:/home/squeaksource/sso2/ss/trunk$ ls *spur* |
>> wc -l
>>    450
>>
>> Is it really necessary to delete all of this stuff? Or could we keep it
>> as is, and
>> work around the problems in some other way?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>