Diskspace exceeded on packages.macports.org?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 25, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> On 25.06.2015 09:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> MacPorts people: Do we clean up old archives? If not, we probably should. If
>>> we do, we probably should clean out more to avoid this?
>> 
>> We don't delete old packages or distfiles. We probably should, but there's no command in MacPorts to do that. Maybe "port reclaim" will help when that's released.
> 
> Not entirely true. Joshua lets loose this script every time I complain about the
> package archive blowing up again:
> https://trac.macports.org/browser/users/jmr/delete_old_archives/delete_old_archives.py
> 
> The last run is probably a few month ago, though. It's not scheduled for
> automatic execution (e.g., via a cron job.)

Oh nice, I didn't know. (Or probably, I knew and forgot.)

I've filed a ticket for the problem now, and mentioned the script.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48174


> We cannot easily clean distfiles, because ports may still depend on them and the
> original master site may be either long gone or the original tarball deleted for
> other reasons. That's why the distfiles are stockpiling without any cleanup.

Yes, I do like having old distfiles available, for those times when I need to go back and look at older versions of a port.