I've added a new command line tool to the DPM toolkit: dpm-delreplica. This just just a wrapper round the dpm_delreplica call in the python API and does exactly what it says on the tin. It arose after the guys at Oxford noted that there wasn't an easy way using existing tools to delete a replica of a file - it was either all or nothing.
One thing to note is that the tool will let you delete the last replica of a file, which then leaves a dangling entry in the DPM namespace that you can successfully do e.g. dpns-ls on, but cannot actually retrieve. As with all of these tools, I try to make each one as simple and self contained as possible (the Unix way) so I've not added any special checking to make sure that a replica isn't the last one. You have been warned.
The tool has been tested in a couple of places and seems to work fine. As always, feedback is welcome.
Cheers,
Greig
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