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Bug 914333 - /experimental cleanup
Summary: /experimental cleanup
Status: IN_PROGRESS
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Infrastructure
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Reported: 2023-09-16 21:14 UTC by Andreas K. Hüttel
Modified: 2023-09-17 17:08 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2023-09-16 21:14:17 UTC
As discussed on IRC, here's a list of files and directories that should be removed recursively in /experimental (once the archiving job that saves them offline for preservation has finished).

The point being, the files are too old to be useful, and if someone stumbles across them they basically only dig themselves into a hole.

./alpha/historical
./alpha/livecd
./amd64/musl
./amd64/x32
./arm64/musl
./arm64/old
./arm64/stage3-arm64-20200609.tar.bz2
./arm64/stage3-arm64-20200609.tar.bz2.CONTENTS.gz
./arm64/stage3-arm64-20200609.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
./arm64/stage3-arm64-systemd-20190428.tar.bz2
./arm64/stage3-arm64-systemd-20190428.tar.bz2.CONTENTS
./arm64/stage3-arm64-systemd-20190428.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
./arm64/stage3-arm64-systemd-20190925.tar.bz2
./arm64/stage3-arm64-systemd-20190925.tar.bz2.CONTENTS
./arm64/stage3-arm64-systemd-20190925.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
./arm64/stage4-arm64-minimal-20190613.tar.bz2
./arm64/stage4-arm64-minimal-20190613.tar.bz2.CONTENTS
./arm64/stage4-arm64-minimal-20190613.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
./arm/arm64
./arm/musl
./bsd
./hppa/livecd
./ia64/livecd
./loong/stages
./mips/contrib
./mips/desktop-ci20
./mips/historical
./mips/stages
./.overlays
./ppc/musl
./ppc/uclibc
./prefix/arm
./prefix/x86-interix
./s390/stages
./sh/stages
./sparc/freebsd
./x86/embedded
./x86/vserver
./x86/xbox
Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-09-17 05:06:35 UTC
Ok, removed all of those

Few more to ask about:

arm:
537383200   3392 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   3471701 Apr  8  2009 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/arm/netboot/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/armv4tl.gz
537383201   3392 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   3471765 Apr  8  2009 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/arm/netboot/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/armv4tl.ubootinitramfs


hppa:
  7927552  11752 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  12034048 Jan 31  2013 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/hppa/netboot/netboot-hppa32-20130122.lif
  7927553  13516 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  13840384 Jan 31  2013 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/hppa/netboot/netboot-hppa64-20130122.lif


prefix:
546655586      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror      1924 Jan  1  2014 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/patches/gcc-apple-4.2.1-inline.patch
 13512479 126960 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  130006400 Feb 26  2018 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/prefix-stage3-arm64-20180225.tar.xz
 13512480      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror        70 Mar  4  2018 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/prefix-stage3-arm64-20180225.tar.xz.md5sum
 13512481 118436 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  121275464 Feb 26  2018 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/prefix-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20180226.tar.xz
 13512482      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror        78 Mar  4  2018 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/prefix-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20180226.tar.xz.md5sum
 12325174 137292 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  140586763 Oct  2  2013 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20131003.tar.bz2
 12325176      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror        76 Oct  2  2013 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20131003.tar.bz2.md5sum
  7927591 158100 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  161891192 Dec 11  2014 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20141210.tar.bz2
  7927587      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror        76 Dec 11  2014 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20141210.tar.bz2.md5sum
 12325142  88932 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror  91062868 Oct 28  2016 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz
  7927586      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror       925 Oct 28  2016 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz.md5sum


sparc:
  3115287   5284 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   5409868 Nov 22  2005 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-2005.0-20050717.tftpboot
  3115288      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror        74 Nov 22  2005 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-2005.0-20050717.tftpboot.md5sum
  3115289   7192 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   7362998 Oct 30  2008 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-20071227.tftpboot
  3115290   8480 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   8679713 Jan 28  2010 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-20100128.tftpboot
  3115291   8460 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   8659728 Apr 13  2010 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-20100413.tftpboot
  3115292   7136 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   7303343 Nov 27  2007 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/netboot-sparc64-20070724.img
814411298   3608 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror   3693801 Nov 22  2005 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc/gentoo-sparc-2005.0-20050413.tftpboot
814411299      4 -rw-r--r--   1 gmirror  gmirror        72 Nov 22  2005 /var/tmp/gmirror-releases/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc/gentoo-sparc-2005.0-20050413.tftpboot.md5sum
Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2023-09-17 06:59:55 UTC
the prefix things can go
Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2023-09-17 10:28:31 UTC
Well, I left some of the netboot binaries in place because I dont know how useful they still are or whether there is any replacements. 

Probably best for the arch teams to say.
Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2023-09-17 10:30:48 UTC
P.S. Now the main disk space hog is the experimental amd64 binhost.
I'll remove that after the announcement of the official, signed binary packages.

That will still take a bit (but is well on the way and actively prepared), see bug 913020.
Comment 5 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-09-17 17:08:19 UTC
sparc,hppa,arm: please confirm the cleanups in comment 1.

they need to removed on woodpecker experimental-local first, then on dipper.