Re: [cdt-dev] Cleanup of download.eclipse.org

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello folks,

This is now in progress. I am just testing some stuff, but it all is looking good. I need to wait until mirroring updates in the next 24 hours to make sure there are no unintended surprises. I am relying on the new 301 response when archived content is accessed via download.eclipse.org.

Please let me know if you see anything broken.

I will be documenting this properly on the Wiki as part of finishing up. However in the meantime there is one thing that may cause an issue - The contents of https://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/builds/ is not really supposed to be consumed long term,i.e. not after a release is made. It made up 50GB+ of our disk usage (out of 70GB). I have not simply deleted this directory, instead it is archived as https://archive.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/old_builds_to_consider_deleting/. I do plan on deleting this, eventually, but in the meantime if you have a build that breaks because of this move and you need that build to be temporarily restored please let me know. I have not moved the CDT 9.10 builds yet. (Note that other projects, such as Platform delete all their old builds right after a release, however it appears CDT never did this as we have old milestone and nightly builds going back to 2007.)

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 15:34, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello folks,

CDT's disk usage on download.eclipse.org has grown to over 70GB - 20GB of which is being mirrored - this is too much and includes lots of old stuff that presumably no one is actually downloading.

The Eclipse Foundation has a process for archiving old items - it gets moved from https://download.eclipse.org to https://archive.eclipse.org.

Please have a look at Bug 546434 c34 for some more background.

My plan is to delete old builds (things that are not releases) and move old releases to archive.eclipse.org - anything from 2017 or earlier. Please let me know if this causes any issues. 

Note that all files and update sites will continue to work at their existing addresses, the download.eclipse.org will just redirect to archive.eclipse.org. See Bug 546434 c16.

Thank you,

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com