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

[Philip Balister]

On 12/12/2018 07:57 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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 ?

I'm always curious :) But it could give us usage imformation for old
releases that we could use to make support decisions. Also give Michael
an idea of how long we should mirror files.

Philip

> 
>> 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
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