Ludovic Courtès skribis: > Hi, > > Guillaume Le Vaillant skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès skribis: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I noticed that my ~/.cache/guix/checkouts directory had accumulated >>> a lot of cruft from channels, playing with ‘--with-branch’ and such, >>> and that it would be nice to clean it up once in a while. >>> >>> This is what this patch does. It uses the (guix cache) default >>> strategy, which consists in deleting least-recently-used items by >>> looking at their atime. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> How does it behave when the cache is on a file system mounted with the >> 'noatime' option? > > I guess the worst that could happen is that checkouts are removed too > frequently (because the atime is not updated), meaning that users find > themselves making full clones more often than we’d like. > > Perhaps we could use the mtime instead, since when checkouts are > updated, the mtime is presumably updated too. > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’. I guess either using mtime or making Guix update the atime when using a cached checkout would work.