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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:26 +0200, ext Niels Breet wrote:
> 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 Why do we need to remove outdated packages?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.
> 

You can use apt-get install --print-uris with the all packages from repo
whithout versions. The output will contain all needed packages. The rest
can be removed.

Regards,
--
Ed