[oe] Shall we remove bad-checksum files on http://sources.openembedded.org/?

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:40 PM Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>
> Can you look at what files get downloaded? mirrors exists to provide a
> place to download files that have disappeared from their original
> locations. People maintaining old systems should have saved local
> copies, but if not they depend on our source mirrors for GPL compliance
> exercises.
>
> It would be useful to know what "old"files are being downloaded to give
> us an idea how many people are using older "versions" of OpenEmbedded.
>

what purpose would it serve ?

> Philip
>
> On 12/12/2018 05:07 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Not that I can think of.
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:18 PM Michael Halstead
> > <mhalstead at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've removed all of those files and prevented them from being mirrored in the future.
> >>
> >> Are there any other files we should remove?
> >>
> >> On 12/12/18 10:48 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes they serve no purpose deleting them is in order
> >>
> >> I should also check the Jenkins job to ignore them
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:32 AM Michael Halstead <mhalstead at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> With the current setup files will accumulate on
> >>> http://sources.openembedded.org/ over time and none will be removed. Are
> >>> there any patterns that should be removed over time? *bad-checksum*
> >>> files seem like an obvious choice. Please share concerns or suggust
> >>> other patterns to remove.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Michael Halstead
> >>> Linux Foundation / SysAdmin
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Michael Halstead
> >> Linux Foundation / SysAdmin