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I hear, there cold be a int-field on repository to specify the number of retained versions. And the context manager that creates versions could clean up in its __exit__ method.

The question i see if there would be a way to mark precious versions that should not be deleted. What do we do with versions that are linked to a publication / distribution?

Will updating the setting/field automatically clean up repo versions? Like if I set the value to 3 and I have 5 versions, does that automatically delete 2 versions?

bmbouter wrote:

My take was no, but it's important we figure out what we want in the long term because it affects if we have to use the tasking system or not for any change to this. The openapi schema already reports that tasking isn't used, so I'm thinking that maybe we can't have some repsonses return 200 and others returned 202? I'm not clear on if that's a problem for openapi or not. Do you know?

Sorry, I only saw this comment after I opened my PR. The calls to update repository are in fact async:

https://docs.pulpproject.org/pulp_file/restapi.html#operation/repositories_file_file_update

https://docs.pulpproject.org/pulp_file/restapi.html#operation/repositories_file_file_partial_update

I don't know if that makes an argument for supporting cleanup during update but I don't have a huge preference around whether we cleanup versions.