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Emergency Removal of published libc binaries in my ppa

Asked by Ward Nakchbandi

I was messing with some glibc builds on ppa, one of them went terribly wrong so i deleted the package but the published binaries are still there, and can't put a fixed glibc build because it pulls in the broken libc as a build-dep , so please remove all libc related published binaries on https://launchpad.net/~cosmohq/+archive/ubuntu/baseos-test

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

We can't, but you should be able to. Could you try going to https://launchpad.net/~cosmohq/+archive/ubuntu/baseos-test/+delete-packages, selecting glibc 2.36-99nobara4, and deleting that again? The reason the previous deletion attempt didn't take is that you deleted it before its builds had finished publishing.

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Ward Nakchbandi (cosmohq) said : 		#2

cjwaston, i already did sir and there is nothing there to delete anymore, but the published binaries are still in the repos which is a huge issue, the docs say they need 7 days to be removed, but this is an emergency, so i can't wait that long!

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#3

I understand that you tried this on 2022-10-18. As I said, when you tried this before it seems to have been when builds were in flight, and so the deletion didn't fully take. Have you tried it again *more recently*?

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Ward Nakchbandi (cosmohq) said : 		#4

Colin Waston , glibc isn't the launchpad interface anymore see https://imgur.com/a/aDu66WA so i can't delete it again, yet it still shows app in the repos i currently added a -10 priority to glibc in my ppa to prevent my system from breaking

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Best Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#5

It may be necessary to use the Launchpad API. If you do "git clone https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu-archive-tools", you'll find a program called "remove-package" there, and you should be able to run this:

  ./remove-package -A ppa:cosmohq/ubuntu/baseos-test -e 2.36-99nobara4 -m 'Broken' glibc

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Ward Nakchbandi (cosmohq) said : 		#6

Thanks Colin Watson, that solved my question.