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automatic PPA cleanup

Asked by Kalkun

Would it be possible to configure the PPA to automatically clean older packages?

On the PPA I publish sort of nightly package. With time there would be a lot of packages, many of them would not be useful.
It would be nice if it was possible to configure the PPA so that it:

- automatically delete packages when older than n days (30 days for example)
- keep only the la m versions (for ex. 30 versions) of a package and delete the older versions.

Such a job could then be run automatically on a daily or weekly basis on your servers

The best would probably be to configure this for each PPA.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

Much the same answer as in https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/707093. (We certainly can't field this sort of thing as a support ticket, which are generally for short-term operational issues rather than feature requests.)

We already run garbage-collection on old packages that are no longer the current version for any Ubuntu series, so this would only be a problem if you're doing something unusual like publishing packages under a sequence of different names. That's specialized enough that I think the most sensible thing to do would be for you to run a script on your end using Launchpad's webservice API to implement whatever removal policy you want.

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