[darcs-devel] [issue1599] task: automatically expire unused caches

[Eric Kow]

New submission from Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>:

There are several issues that reference this task, so I'm creating a new ticket
for it.  This is the plan Petr developed over the second darcs hacking sprint,
so I'm assuming he's still on it :-)

* Issues
    * Zooko stale remote - issue1153
    * Meaningless local paths - issue1159
    * Meaningless local paths that are accidentally meaningful (NFS automounter)
- issue1240 

* Plan
 * check for availability of repo root (that we're fetching from), and if not
available
 * remote: ignore the entry for this darcs (we want to keep the entry in case
it's just transient error)

    * "WARNING: can't use <foo> please remove it from _darcs/prefs/sources"

 * local: remove the entry
 * fix unionCaches - optional, but could be nice (issue1159)
 * long term? on timeout: disable all sources from a given host for this darcs
(URL, Ssh [transient])

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assignedto: mornfall
messages: 8724
nosy: darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, mornfall
priority: feature
status: need-implementation
title: task: automatically expire unused caches
topic: Hashed, Target-2.4

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