On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Dan van der Ster <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:38 PM Alfredo Deza <adeza@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> After the 12.2.6 release went out, we've been thinking on better ways >> to remove a version from our repositories to prevent users from >> upgrading/installing a known bad release. >> >> The way our repos are structured today means every single version of >> the release is included in the repository. That is, for Luminous, >> every 12.x.x version of the binaries is in the same repo. This is true >> for both RPM and DEB repositories. >> >> However, the DEB repos don't allow pinning to a given version because >> our tooling (namely reprepro) doesn't construct the repositories in a >> way that this is allowed. For RPM repos this is fine, and version >> pinning works. >> >> To remove a bad version we have to proposals (and would like to hear >> ideas on other possibilities), one that would involve symlinks and the >> other one which purges the known bad version from our repos. > > What we did with our mirror was: `rm -f *12.2.6*; createrepo --update > .` Took a few seconds. Then disabled the mirror cron. Unfortunately with Debian repositories, reprepro is a lot more complicated, and then we have to re-sign the new repository metadata, so it's a little more involved there. BUT perfect is the enemy of the good so maybe we should have just done your suggestion for RPMs at least. - Ken -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
