[squeak-dev] automated way to delete specific trunk packages?

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri May 8 21:35:37 UTC 2015


Hi Levente,

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> Hi Eliot,
>
> If you can generate the files while they are in the repository (on the
> server), then you can save the time waiting for someone to delete them,
> because while you can't delete the files from the server, you can overwrite
> them. This wouldn't help with the .mcds, but I think those are not cached
> in the image, so deleting just the .mcds is probably a way easier thing to
> do.


I thought this too.  But when I tried doing this yesterday, and earlier,
the files were not replaced.  I have a generated set waiting to upload as
soon as the old ones have been deleted.


>
> Levente
>
>
> On Fri, 8 May 2015, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>  Hi David,
>>
>>     and to be very clear, the *only* packages to be deleted are those
>> matching
>>
>> Collections.spur*
>> Compiler.spur*
>> Kernel.spur*
>> System.spur*
>>
>> Eliot (phone)
>>
>> On May 8, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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