From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>,
46441@debbugs.gnu.org, Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org>
Subject: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:09:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5z11r6pv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkXWojE2Kkvi_4ZNaa3Bd5bQMSo97UN9mn7DPi8hZX-UA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 3 Apr 2021 20:00:51 -0500")
>>>> Currently, there's no way to get a permanent link to a package version
>>>> that happens to be the current one.
>>
>> FWIW, the situation is even worse because there's no way to get
>> a permanent link at all: while we do keep some old versions, we don't
>> keep them all. Currently, the limit is set at 20, meaning that we keep
>> up to 20 old versions around per package, and once we hit that limit we
>> start pruning the old versions according to a heuristic that intends to
>> guess which versions are more important to keep.
>
> Why not say, in addition to the above: we never delete anything more
> recent than N years or months?
Yes, that's probably what we should do (tho only for the release
tarballs rather than the devel tarballs).
Patch welcome (the relevant code is in `elpaa--prune-old-tarballs` tho
changes elsewhere will be needed to propagate whether we're pruning
release tarballs or devel tarballs).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-04 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 19:46 bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 17:32 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 18:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:36 ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 19:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 19:31 ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 22:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04 1:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-04 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-02-12 18:41 ` Mauricio Collares
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