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Eigler" Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: value of gdbadmin effort to create gdb daily/weekly source tarballs Message-ID: References: <20240415143428.GA24230@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240415143428.GA24230@redhat.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi Frank, > Observing regular system activity on sourceware, the gdbadmin cron > jobs to create the https://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/ struck me > as something that perhaps is no longer that useful. With git-archive > being able to immediately generate tarballs of any version, with git > diffs producing the deltas, is there any utility at all in still > producing these tarballs? > > Would you like me to check logs as to how many accesses to this have > taken place? (A very rough brief search indicated 99%+ were bots like > search engines and ai ingesters.) If this isn't too much effort, that would give some factual data that would hopefully turn the decision into a no-brainer. Personally, I'm having a hard time seeing this as being sufficiently useful to be worth the effort (speaking as the only person who gets the alerts when the process breaks, and thus goes to fix it afterwards). A small remark perhaps: The source packages I believe are created using the src-release.sh script, which does more than just tar-ing the files from the repository. We do the same where we create official releases, so the current process produces snapshot which are closer to the releases than a simple tar-ing operation would do. With that said, I personally have experience re-building both binutils and GDB from repository rather than sources, and it's no problem. So for me this is not a significant reason to justify preserving this capability. On the other hand, it does act a periodic test of the script being src-release.sh script staying operational. But if that were the only reason we had, we can preserve this as a pure test, where we do a periodic source packaging, but instead of saving it for people to download, we simple discard it. -- Joel