Ubuntu mirrors cleaning process

[Thomas Ward]

To my knowledge, there is no single 'team' on Launchpad for this that 
you could assign it to, even if the bug is filed.

I'll make some inquiries on IRC to see if I can find someone who knows 
more about the process.


Thomas


On 4/14/21 11:27 AM, Vivien GUEANT - LaFibre.info wrote:
> I have already created an RT ticket for this request: 
> https://rt.ubuntu.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=36015
>
> Here is the answer :
>
> > Hi Vivien,
> >
> > Thanks for your reports, which is very relevant.
> > The people in charge of this cleaning don't use RT but launchpad bugs.
> > May I ask you to file one instead ?
> > I'd suggest filing the bug against ubuntu itself 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ---------------------
> > Laurent Sesquès
>
> Vivien
>
> Le 14/04/2021 à 17:16, Thomas Ward a écrit :
>>
>> Usually, you file these as tickets at rt at ubuntu.com - not via bugs. 
>> That's because the Mirrors team processes questions like these as 
>> tickets, not bugs.  (As a member of the Ubuntu Bug Control team I'm 
>> going to mark your bug as Invalid because it's not something that 
>> should be filed in the bug tracker against Ubuntu).
>>
>> You've mailed the list now, though, so this will eventually get the 
>> attention of one of the mirror team people on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> On 4/14/21 11:04 AM, Vivien GUEANT - LaFibre.info wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I don't know if this is the correct process, I opened the bug 
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1918137 to ask to delete the 
>>> many junk files on the mirrors. I don't know how to attribute it to 
>>> the cleaning team.
>>>
>>> The different points :
>>>
>>> - The i386 package cleaning process seems incomplete: There are 
>>> still i386 boot images for Ubuntu 20.10 or Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute 
>>> Hippo: 
>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
>>>
>>> - The i386 architecture is always listed for Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute 
>>> Hippo: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/bouygues-telecom
>>>
>>> - Files in the "indices" folder 
>>> (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/indices/) are not cleaned up when 
>>> a distribution is deleted from the archive: there are files from 
>>> Ubuntu 5.04: Hoary Hedgehog!
>>>
>>> In order to reduce the environmental footprint of the mirrors which 
>>> contains these unnecessary files, which are copied in thousands of 
>>> copies, would it be possible to do some cleaning?
>>>
>>> Is-it necessary to keep in the mirrors Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise 
>>> Pangolin? Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance ended since April 
>>> 2019 and the mirror files have not changed since may 2018: 
>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to move unsupported versions, like Ubuntu 
>>> 12.04, to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for a little cleaning, which might avoid 
>>> upgrades to the mirror servers (actual size of Ubuntu archives is 
>>> 1.6 TB).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vivien.
>>>
>
>
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