Option to remove fflush in mhvtl code

• Julien will repackage the changes done by Mark in MHVTL, and test them.
• If it works fine then we can ask Mark to tag it. We will no longer need to use a homebrew version.

Apply unified code style / formatting

• Vova will talk with the Gitlab team at CERN to see if they can push for the support of .git-blame-ignore-revs in gitlab.

Rework catalogue release procedure and deployment path

• Joao will come up with a detailed plan on how we will automatically check which versions of the Catalogue are supported by the code.
• We will use the pivot version vX.Y.0-k for catalogue releases.
• Julien suggested that we configure in Cmake what are the catalogue versions compatible with a certain pivot release. This would be checked during pivot versions.

Schema verify fails for postgres in catalogue v13

• We will fix this and tag as 4.7.10-2

Modifications to eos evict/stagerrm command

• The changes are done, and approved by the team.
• Next steps: Merge eos evict to EOS / Fix operational tools (including FST GC) / remove eos stagerrm

Refactor RDBMS functions for catching SQL exceptions

• Lasse will test the changes that he proposed only with the new catalogue physical library table.
• We will then review this. If everything is good, we will adopt the strategy for other parts of the code.

[Ops] Repacks failing because of open denied

• We need to create a new dev ticket that makes repack rm remove all old files.
• For the lock problem (probably due to xrootd), Julien will ask David if he can take a look.

[Ops] Increase the repack expanding limit from 2 to 10

• We will add this as a configuration to the tape server config file.
• The default value should be kept as 2.

CMS usage of eos archive to eosctacms

• Something like cta-admin invalidate cache should allow us to avoid restarting the frontend and alert all eoscta operators on things like that.
• Changing the values should also invalidate the cache (although this only works for the current cta frontend).