FS#17195 - Move files of removed packages to a backup folder

Attached to Project: AUR web interface
Opened by xduugu (xduugu) - Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 21:13 GMT
Last edited by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Thursday, 20 January 2011, 18:51 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 1.6.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The index page of the packages folder[1] is, as far as I know, the only possibility to get a comprehensive list of the packages in the AUR. Unfortunately, the package folders are not removed when a package is deleted from the AUR (I guess for backup reasons) which means the list usually contains several false entries.
It would therefore be great if the corresponding folders could be moved to a special backup folder on package deletion.
Another benefit would be that the cleanup script can be quite trivial as you do not have to query the database anymore to find the obsolete files: simply touch the folders when moving and set up a cron job which removes all folders older than three month or so.

[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
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Closed by  Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Thursday, 20 January 2011, 18:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  We don't provide http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ any longer.
Comment by Laszlo Papp (djszapi) - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 05:46 GMT
I agree with it too, if there is such a page, it should show the actual packages, and the backup strategy should be happen in the 'background' even you can see the all the packages if you leave the search criteria field with empty content and click for 'Go' button.

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