Tags: policy

sow rm takes packages out of the Desired Membership of the Dists you select and, by default, rebuilds the affected indexes immediately. It does not delete bytes from pool/ — membership and content are separate concepts, and reclamation is the …

sow add is the main write path. It parses the packages you point at, derives their format and architecture from the package headers, applies the Dist’s membership policy, and — unless you pass --skip — rebuilds every affected index before it returns. …

Policy is the answer to “I dumped a build directory into this Dist and I do not want the debuginfo packages, and I only want the latest version of each package.” Two rules do that work, they run in a fixed order, and they run over the whole candidate …

SOW has two isolated execution paths. Plain mode is a stateless rebuild of one directory; Managed mode records package membership and immutable repository generations in a workspace. Neither path silently adopts state from the other. Capability …