[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] ci: Expire artifacts after 1 week

[Martin Kletzander]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 02:01:18PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 10:07:37AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 09:23:57AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:51:32PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> > >nbdkit uses about 1.1G of storage for artifacts.  I have personally
>> > >never looked at anything other than the artifacts of the latest failed
>> > >job, so I don't believe we need to keep these around for long.  This
>> > >commit proposes expiring (and thus deleting) artifacts after 1 week.
>> > >
>> > >https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/usage_quotas
>> > >
>> > >If accepted I will make a similar change for libnbd.
>> > >
>> > >Martin, Dan - I don't know a lot about this and I know you've looked
>> > >into this area a lot more.  What do you think of this change?
>> > >
>> >
>> > It definitely makes sense, similar setting is in libvirt repos, the
>> > artifacts expire after 1 day.  Long time ago I was under the
>> > impression that the default is not to keep them around (bearing in
>> > mind that the latest artifact is always kept until a new pipeline
>> > runs).  Now I know this applies only for successful jobs and can be
>> > turned off in settings.  I think you can safely set that to any low
>> > value and all should be fine.
>>
>> Thanks Martin, pushed for nbdkit here:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/4d795c422baffed72e862f6eba24d9fec700f49d
>>
>> I want to check the nbdkit pipeline still works before I make
>> changes in the other projects.
>
>It seems like this change only applies when the pipeline is created,
>ie. not to existing artifacts :-(
>
>However at some point we will have to remove old pipelines.  That can
>only be done using a script, but hopefully that'll remove the attached
>artifacts too.
>
>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71513286/clean-up-history-in-gitlab-pipeline
>

Yes, I did it for personal clones in an ipython session and it looks like the
artifact removal takes some time.  Couple of minutes when I tried it again now.

>Rich.
>
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