action #17688
closedDelete request impact /snapshot repository too
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Description
Every now and then, whenever some basic package layout changes, we are badly impacted by delete requests. The latest example:
gcc5 has been removed from openSUSE:Factory (incl. libffi4) - quite a bunch of the distro did not yet redo the build against libffi7 (rebuild=local will only trigger once libffi4 is no longer available in order to satisfy deps)
Now, with libff-gcc5 deleted, the binary package libffi4 is gone - but not only from /standard, but also from /snapshot
Consequence is, that until the 0313 snapshot is built, tested and published, openSUSE:Factory/snapshot will cause build issues in all devel projects.
We need to come up with a smart solution to allow dropping packages without running into this issue over and over
Updated by rguenther about 7 years ago
In the past I was (repeatedly) asking for "old" shlib packages not
to be pruned like this but "garbage collected" only. Both from
_repository (to avoid dances when doing SONAME updates in Ring-0)
and of course from published repositories.
But appearantly it's not annoying often enough to warrant fixing...
Updated by dimstar over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
Quite a while back /snapshot was change to not be an OBS managed setup but actually rely on what is published on download.o.o (download on demand repo) which actually happens to resolve this issue