Re: was there an advertised ETA for the next beta?

[Féliciano Matias <feliciano matias free fr>]

Le mar 12/08/2003 à 06:39, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
> Paul Iadonisi (pri rhl1 iadonisi to) said: 
> >   How about just moving the old revs into a rawhide-old directory?  You
> > could periodically prune the rawhide-old directory to only have two or
> > three revs.
> 
> This still implies *we* want to carry around that much space. :)
> Seriously, rawhide is already 11GB+, and it will get bigger once
> we actually start adding debuginfo packages.
> 

Perhaps this issue could be answered in the client computer.
I see that up2date provides rollback feature.
Currently i use a little shell script to keep old packages (see
attachment for those interesting in. I am not a good shell coder).

I think this issue could be addressed in the rawhide FAQ (if any).

> Bill
> 

-- 
Féliciano Matias <feliciano matias free fr>

#!/bin/bash
cd `dirname $0`

# $1 source rsync url
#    Take care about the trailing slash.
# $2 destination directory
function rotate ()
{
    source=$1
    desti=$2
    if [ ! -d $desti ]; then mkdir $desti || return 1; fi
    # remove rsync tmp files if any.
    rm -f $desti/.??* || return 1
    TEMPDIR=`mktemp -d tmp_XXXXXX` || return 1
    # create a reference copy with hard links
    cp -plr $desti/. $TEMPDIR || return 1

    rsync -av --delete $source $desti
    if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
        # This work because rsync erase file (mv .toto.XXXXXX toto).
        echo "Something go wrong, restore the tmp copy in $TEMPDIR"
        rm -r -f $desti || return 1
        mv $TEMPDIR $desti
        return 1
    fi

    # find out files with only one link in the tmp copy
    RETVAL=`find $TEMPDIR -links 1 -type f | wc -c`
    if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then
        echo "Nothing to backup"
        rm -r -f $TEMPDIR
	return 0
    fi

    # archive
    if [ ! -d backup ]; then mkdir backup || return 1; fi

    # Uncomment this lines to store all retrieve packages.
    if [ -d backup/${desti}_5 ]; then
        if [ ! -d backup/${desti}_archive ]; then mkdir backup/${desti}_archive || return 1; fi
        find backup/${desti}_5 -links 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -i mv -v -f {} backup/${desti}_archive || return 1
    fi
    rm -r -f backup/${desti}_5 || return 1
    if [ -d backup/${desti}_4 ]; then mv backup/${desti}_4 backup/${desti}_5 || return 1; fi
    if [ -d backup/${desti}_3 ]; then mv backup/${desti}_3 backup/${desti}_4 || return 1; fi
    if [ -d backup/${desti}_2 ]; then mv backup/${desti}_2 backup/${desti}_3 || return 1; fi
    if [ -d backup/${desti}_1 ]; then mv backup/${desti}_1 backup/${desti}_2 || return 1; fi

    # backup files removed in rawhide.
    if [ ! -d backup/${desti}_1 ]; then mkdir backup/${desti}_1 || return 1; fi
    find $TEMPDIR -links 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -i mv -v {} backup/${desti}_1 || return 1
    rm -r -f $TEMPDIR

    # or backup all files. This one is little better (theoretically less rotate) but more confusing.
    # mv $TEMPDIR backup/${desti}_1 || return 1

    return 0
}

rotate ftp.rhnet.is::redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ i386 || exit $?
rotate ftp.rhnet.is::redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/ SRPMS || exit $?

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