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Do older, superseded versions count against the PPA size limit?

Asked by Hans Joachim Desserud

Hi

We have a PPA [1] where we build the latest development version of Widelands for most currently supported Ubuntu releases. A while back I discovered that we would sometimes appear to exceed the size limit, though we couldn't get the sum to match with the aggregated size of the individual packages offered. We investigated a bit and concluded the extra space had to come from previous packages not yet deleted when superseded by the latest ones. For details, see our forum post [2].

So there is a short period of time where a new set of packages has been built, but the previous one has not yet been deleted where the combined sizes might in fact exceed the size limit. So we are basically wondering whether these superseded packages scheduled for automatic deletion are a problem or not? If so, is there anything we can do to make sure the superseded packages are cleaned up faster or increase the size limit of the PPA (it seems to already have been increased to 4 GiB some time in the past, and I don't even know whether a second increase is possible)?

As far as I know, we have not been contacted regarding this issue, but figured we should probably ask to get it clarified.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/+archive/widelands-daily
[2] https://wl.widelands.org/forum/topic/1231/

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Best William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

Most clients only run apt-get update as a daily cron job, so the versions that they see can be up to 24 hours behind the server. For this reason, superseded packages are kept in the archive's pool for at least 24 hours after the new version has built, and are usually removed in 24-48 hours.

I've doubled the widelands-daily PPA's quota a second time, to 8GiB. If you need any more quotas increased, just ask -- don't try to work around it by awkwardly creating a PPA for each Ubuntu release, as was suggested in that thread.

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) said : 		#2

Great, thanks :)

> don't try to work around it by awkwardly creating a PPA for each Ubuntu release
Yes, I really wanted to avoid this.

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) said : 		#3

Thanks William Grant, that solved my question.