Hi,

On 08.05.2015, at 18:03, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> 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.

I already have :D


Best regards
	-Tobias
> 
> 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