Bug 559094 – leftover metadata files for removed ebuilds in Gentoo git user-sync mirror

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Denis Lisov 2015-08-29 14:10:06 UTC]

The metadata cache regen for the Gentoo user-sync git mirror at https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo does not remove the metadata files for ebuilds removed from tree. This can be easily seen from the history by using

git log --diff-filter=D --stat metadata/

from the git repo root and observing no file deletions since the 15th of August.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Stale metadata files accumulate, for example,

$ ls app-vim/vim-misc/*.ebuild metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-* | cat                                                                                                                                                               
app-vim/vim-misc/vim-misc-1.17.1.ebuild
app-vim/vim-misc/vim-misc-1.17.6.ebuild
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.11
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.13.1
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.16.1
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.17
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.17.1
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.17.6
metadata/md5-cache/app-vim/vim-misc-1.8.5

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2015-08-31 16:16:12 UTC]

Did I fail at rsync/git somewhere or does pmaint regen leave old metadata entries? :)

[Comment 2 Tim Harder 2015-08-31 16:22:55 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #1)
> Did I fail at rsync/git somewhere or does pmaint regen leave old metadata
> entries? :)

pmaint regen never has had support to remove old entries.

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2015-09-04 20:46:26 UTC]

As an interim solution, I have manually wiped the caches right now. Hopefully the repos will shrink a bit on next sync.

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2015-09-11 15:02:36 UTC]

Should be fixed now.