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In-reply-to: <20121213124345.GJ3663@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker	on Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:43:45 +0400)
Subject: Re: old GDB snapshots...
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> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:43:45 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Jan was asking about the snaphots we provide on sourceware's
> FTP server. And indeed, we have many!
> 
> We produce weekly snaphots, and daily patches, I believe.
> As far as I can tell, the scripts are supposed to delete old
> snapshots, only keeping a certain number of every kind (numbers
> depend on the type of file - for instance we keep more daily
> diffs than we keep weekly tarballs).
> 
> I believe that the scripts do not delete old snapshots after
> we increment the version number, so old snapshots have been
> accumulating:
>   - HEAD snapshots: 1.2GB with ~230 files;
>   - branch snapshots: 3.6GB with ~630 files.
>     (we have snapshots dating back to 6.3)
> 
> I am going to do some cleanup, but how far back do we want
> to keep?

What's the rationale for having snapshots at all when we have anoncvs access?