On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:31 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:41:27PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > We are about to roll out garbage collection for Koji. Please review the > > document linked below. > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/GarbageCollection > > > > As part of garbage collection, builds that are no longer needed will be > > deleted. The owner of the build will receive an email notification of > > the impending deletion and there is a grace period. To reduce the amount > > of email, multiple notifications to the same user will be combined into > > one message. > > As owner of one of the biggest offenders in space usage, I completely > understand the need to do this. > However, it's extremely valuable to be able to have users go grab > a bunch of previous RPMs to bisect a problem. Just this afternoon, > I asked Mike Harris to download 15 2.6.22 based kernels for example > so we can find out exactly when we introduced a "cant boot" bug which > likely affects F8 too. > > What I'd like to do, is still keep all these RPMs, but get them out > of koji. I'm even prepared to give up a few hundred GB of diskspace > on my own machines to keep them. The question I have though, is > whats the easiest way to get them? Clicking through the koji web interface > will quickly drive me nuts. Is there some place I can just scp them from? You can get a list of builds with koji list-tagged or just by getting a directory listing. Then, there's koji download-build[1] which will download all the packages for a specific build into the current directory Jeremy [1] I just found this one a couple of months ago -- it's incredibly handy for all kinds of things -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
