#3290 Issue closed: OBS remove old and outdated ReaR versions from Archiving:Backup:Rear¶

Labels: cleanup, fixed / solved / done, ReaR Project

jsmeix opened issue at 2024-07-22 14:38:¶

Currently OBS Archiving:Backup:Rear contains the
old and outdated ReaR versions 2.4 and 2.5 and 2.6

# osc list Archiving:Backup:Rear

ebiso
rear-2.4
rear-2.5
rear-2.6
rear-2.7

I wonder if those rather old ReaR versions
are still needed by any user "out there"?

I suggest to remove ReaR versions 2.4 and 2.5.

I would like to keep the current latest ReaR release 2.7
and one before that i.e. ReaR 2.6 but normally not more.

When a new ReaR version is released, e.g. assume it is 'ReaR 2.8'
then we should keep the older ReaR 2.7 and 2.6 for some time
(e.g. some weeks or a few month) but finally we should
remove the oldest one (i.e. 2.6 in this example)
to get to the "current one plus one older" state
(i.e. 2.8 and 2.7 in this example).

Cf. the similar cleanup issue
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3056
and see
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3289#issuecomment-2242912000
and
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3289#issuecomment-2243093772
how old sources in OBS that stay unchanged
for a longer time (more than a year or so)
cause unexpected issues for our users and
likely needless maintenance efforts for us.

jsmeix commented at 2024-08-29 08:54:¶

No news (in particular no objections) is good news
so I did right now:

# osc list Archiving:Backup:Rear
ebiso
rear-2.4
rear-2.5
rear-2.6
rear-2.7

# osc rdelete -m "removed old and outdated rear-2.4 \
 see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3290" \
 Archiving:Backup:Rear rear-2.4

# osc rdelete -m "removed old and outdated rear-2.5 \
 see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3290" \
 Archiving:Backup:Rear rear-2.5

# osc list Archiving:Backup:Rear
ebiso
rear-2.6
rear-2.7

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[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]