[pkg-nvidia-devel] Cleaning out tarballs directory

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> Current svn supports sparse checkouts:

>     svn checkout --depth empty \
>         svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-nvidia/tarballs tarballs

> will get the directory only but no files. The available files could be
> listed with

>     svn ls tarballs

> and a specific file could be checked out with

>     svn up tarballs/foobar.0.8.15.tar.gz

Oh, cool, I didn't know about that.

> But doing this manually every time a file is added will probably be
> inconvenient, so removing the old ones is probably better.

Yeah, it's nice to have everything there.

> The version currently in oldstable should be kept, too.  I would also
> keep the intermediate versions between stable and unstable, or, if these
> are still too many, at least one year of history + the last releases of
> each major version (i.e. out of 123.45.{66,77,88} at least 123.45.88
> should be kept).

> You should probably add a README file to the tarballs directory listing
> all removed tarballs and the last revision before they were removed, so
> one can easily get them from the repository without digging too deep
> into the history.

Okay, sounds good.  I've implemented that: everything from stable to
unstable, plus the oldstable version.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>