From d2a4d3629ce48c4d97e9d641cc13b06a51460278 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <ritesh.sarraf@collabora.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:57:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Document the process to remove a distribution
This is required when the cleaning up and recovering space.
Usually, the beta, development and preview releases are the common
candidates for removal
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <ritesh.sarraf@collabora.com>
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content/guides/apertis_release_process.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/content/guides/apertis_release_process.md b/content/guides/apertis_release_process.md
index dc9c64e30..8495a01c1 100644
--- a/content/guides/apertis_release_process.md
+++ b/content/guides/apertis_release_process.md
@@ -250,6 +250,27 @@ The `apply` sub-command does the actual job.
Package cyrus-sasl2 is NOT IN SYNC in branches: v2020 and v2020-security
Merging branch v2020-security into v2020
+## Removing an old distribution
+
+Perform the following steps to remove an old distribtuion. This would usually be the
+obsolete *Beta* and *Preview* distribution releases, like: `v2019dev0`, `v2019pre`
+
+* Remove the entry for the distribution from the `reprepro` configuration file.
+ Example: `/srv/obs/repos/shared/apertis/internal/apertis/conf/distributions`
+* Run the following `reprepro` command to apply the changes
+
+ ```
+ # sudo -u obsrun reprepro --gnupghome /srv/obs/gnupg/ -Vb /srv/obs/repos/shared/apertis/internal/apertis --delete clearvanished
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019dev0|proprietary|amd64'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019dev0|proprietary|arm64'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019dev0|proprietary|armhf'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019pre|demo|amd64'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019pre|demo|armhf'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019pre|nothumb|amd64'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019pre|nothumb|armhf'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019pre|proprietary|amd64'.
+ Deleting vanished identifier 'u|v2019pre|proprietary|armhf'.
+ ```
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