Removing duplicated rpms

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl
Wed Jul 2 14:40:39 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 04:18:43PM +0200, David Caro wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Lately we have been having space issues on resources.ovirt.org and I'm working
> on a small script to remove duplicated rpms and use hard links instead. But I
> have a question:
> 
> Do we care if there are signed rpms inside nightly repo or ovirt-node repo? (or
> any other repo for that matter), if so, why? Can we just use gpgcheck=0 on the
> repo files for those?
> 
> I say so because a signed rpm and an unsigned one are different files, and if
> you want both, you have to keep both, but if there's no need for that, you can
> just remove the unsigned one and create a link to the signed one liberating that
> space.
> 
> In my tests, I can save around 7GB of space right now. We can add the script as
> a cron once a day to maintain the links once ready.

IMHO having signed automated builds doesn't say that much, so I don't
think it's hugely important for us now.



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