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

[Chris Muller]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On 11.05.2015, at 02:29, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
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>>> On 09.05.2015, at 19:57, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>
>> 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):
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>>  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;

Wow, that is bad code -- an accessor should be named as the accessor
and the filtering method something different...