fedora-copr
Option to only include the latest successful build in the repos
Original issue: https://pagure.io/copr/copr/issue/840 Opened: 2019-07-08 08:54:23 Opened by: churchyard
Createrepo fix was merged.
- we should have a new option per/project, something like "Only latest NEVRAs in repository metadata"
- we need to wait for the createrepo_c release
we should have a new option per/project, something like "Only latest NEVRAs in repository metadata"
What is the benefit of not doing this by default?
What is the benefit of not doing this by default?
Some reasons from the top of my head:
- createrepo_c is slower when used like that (eats more memory)
- it is a complicated feature, likely to break the metadata till we fix bugs
- it may conflict with the "auto prune" feature (14 days retention period)
- it partly conflicts with "max number of builds per package" feature
We should also decide what to do about the RPMs that will not be added into the metadata. Createrepo_c isn't doing anything else than "ignoring" the duplicates. Should we just delete them? How?
- Some users might want to take care explicitly about the possible duplicates.
Some users might want to take care explicitly about the possible duplicates.
That is the reason I assumed it can be turned on by default because users either won't care or want the latest build to win. However, I was not aware of the performance hit.
JFTR, https://github.com/pulp/pulp_rpm/issues/2271 would solve this for us for free once we are moved to PULP.