[maemo-developers] Extras repository: clean out older versions.

[From: Niels Breet]

Hi all,


Up until now we have always kept every version of a package that was
uploaded to Extras. This wasn't considered a problem when we had only a
few applications in the repository. But now we are getting more serious
about Extras, we might want to consider cleaning up too.

Why do we need to remove outdated packages?

We need to reindex the repository every once in a while and these extra
files are taking up a lot of time to md5sum etc. Another side effect is
that the Packages file gets very large when we list 10 times the same
application but with a different version.

An example:
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/a/advanced-backlight/

Does anybody know a good way to remove these old versions without causing
dependency problems? I've searched for existing tools, but can't seem to
find anything that is useful for this.

If you know how to do this, please let me know!

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster