Topic: Daily-build PPA and disk space usage

Hi,

I've been looking at the daily-build PPA a bit recently, and I've noticed that the packages page routinely reports more than 100% disk space usage. Since I don't think we should be using more disk space than we have available, I've looked into how to improve this situation:

1. I've already deleted the old packages for Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 since those releases had reached End of Life quite some time ago and new packages weren't built anyways. This helped some of course, but not enough.

2. Most of the time, the PPA reports it's using 4.1 out of 4.0 GiB. That doesn't seem too bad, but sometimes it reports way higher numbers (I've seen > 6 GiB ). I believe this is when the new packages have been uploaded and the older ones are still present, waiting to be deleted some time later. If it is indeed due to the older packages, I don't know how serious it is that a double set of packages exceed the storage limit for a short period of time. I guess we need to ask the Launchpad people about this. That doesn't change the fact that we are above the limit when things are normal, though.

3. Looking at the PPA for stable builds, I notice that it only has 2 GiB available, which from what I could find is the default size. Since the daily-build archive has twice that amount already, have we applied for increased storage space in the past?

A simple fix would of course be to remove one of the older series to get below the storage limit. However, with an upcoming Ubuntu release in October, there will be a new series created and if we were to add that we would be back to where we are today. On the other hand, if we keep the current series, we will not have the space to add a new one regardless.

Suggestions or input? I guess we could ask the Launchpad people how to deal with this, the documentation mentions that if you need more space, you can ask them. I would first like to know whether we have already asked for increased storage space in the past. If we did, it might be relevant to look at that request before asking again, especially since I don't know what they would say to a second request.

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QCS: Click the triangle next to a series to expand it; it will list details and the package files. I can't get the numbers to add up when adding together the listed sizes there though, it's not enough to reach 2.6.

You might be on to something here, because if we compare with the stable PPA, it's four series are using a lot less.

I've thought about multiple PPAs as well, but I would rather avoid it if we can. It is a lot easier to say "want a development version, add this" rather than trying to figure out which one to use.

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Ah well... checking the server:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/widelands-dev/widelands-daily/ubuntu/pool/main/w/widelands/

It clearly shows there are "old" files (bzr6643, bzr6638, bzr6637, bzr6632).

So this is now solved. Now to hjd's second question... do we have to ask Launchpad for more space, or do we not?

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I asked the Launchpad people about this earlier today, and they increased the size limit to 8 GiB. With this increase we should be safely within the limit for quite some time.

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