On Jul 14 09:22 PM, Alyx Wolcott wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 9:20 PM A. Wilcox <awilfox(a)adelielinux.org> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Now that we've migrated to the new GitLab, I think it is time we revisit
> > the repositories we are still keeping (in archived form):
> >
> > * aports.git and aports-old.git
> >
> > Both are over 100 MB and both contain nothing helpful or useful to us
> > any more. They're snapshots of 2017 and 2018 Alpine packages, sometimes
> > with improvements that made it to system/ or user/. If we want to
> > investigate how Alpine did something we can just look in their current
> > Git instead of an old mirror. I'd like to remove both of these.
If there are no unmerged changes these can probably be removed.
> > * portageplus.git
> >
> > This is some patches to an old version of Portage, ca early 2017, that
> > supports emitting APK binpkgs. It also defaults to Galapagos instead of
> > Gentoo as a fallback repository. (How many here even remember Galapagos?)
> >
> > We can probably archive the apkkit patch for posterity and then delete
> > it, IMO.
I say keep it for posterity.
> > * patches.git
> >
> > musl compatibility patches for some packages in /etc/portage/patches
> > format.
> >
> > My suggestion is take what we haven't packaged in packages.git and save
> > it somewhere (or maybe just package it?), then remove it.
Sounds reasonable.
> > * etc-portage.git, apkkit-conf.git, systemsite.git
> >
> > Old infrastructure from when we were a Gentoo fork. Maybe archive for
> > posterity, or delete it.
Archive for posterity please.
> Why?
>
> 100MB isn't a lot of space, I doubt it is particularly useful for us
> anymore but I don't specifically see a benefit in deleting this past work;
> esp. when it may involve products we still need to complete integrating
> into Adele.
Agreed.
Max
Received on Tue Jul 16 2019 - 23:37:03 UTC