Re: [AUH] [PATCH v2 1/2] upgrade-helper: add state module and --incremental mode

On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 at 17:50, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Behavior:
> - Failed attempts are retried after retry_interval days (default 30).
> - Successful/already-current upgrades are suppressed for success_max_age
>   days (default 30).

I have realized that we also need to handle recipes with rapid-fire
releases, that would otherwise flood the mailing list with daily
updates (if AUH is run once a day, which is the goal). This typically
happens when:
- there are no release tags, the recipe just takes the latest commit,
and upstream adds commits frequently (for example, vulkan-samples)
- upstream does have release tags, but they're added often, e.g.
sbom-cve-check-* items add them once a day, and some python items are
also rather quite 'liberal' with tags

So I'd suggest:

retry_interval is renamed to retry_same_version_interval
retry_any_version_interval setting is introduced
retry_any_version_recipes setting is introduced, and is a list of recipes
_prune() is adjusted to first check if a recipe is in that list, and
if so, it's checked against retry_any_version_interval, and not any
other intervals, so that it's guaranteed to be skipped until that
interval elapses (and skip_reason() should consider that similarly)

Otherwise, I think this is more or less ready!

Alex