From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 45327@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#45327] [PATCH] git: Periodically delete least-recently-used cached checkouts.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:39:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9c9hyrs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wnx97try.fsf@gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:19:29 +0100")
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> However, I still do not like the “automatic” part. Personally, I would
> prefer something like:
>
> guix pull --delete-generations=2m
>
> deleting the cache older than 2 months, in addition to the old profiles.
> Because, with your patch, if I want to change the expiration or the
> period, it is not convenient: via channels.scm, maybe.
There’s a difference though: generations are things you manage by
yourself as a user, whereas this cache is really just an internal cache.
Of course it becomes a user-visible feature if it gets in the way, and I
agree we should avoid that. But it also gets in the way by not being
vacuumed, hence this patch.
> Sometime, I am one or two months off (vacation). And I am sure to
> forget to tweak the channels.scm when I am back. Well, I have 3-4
> channels.scm files; for example I am not pulling guix-past each time I
> pull. Therefore, I should have these 3-4 channels.scm duplicated with
> the expiration+period tweaked for when I am back from long breaks.
>
> Well, if the automatic is the default, a way to turn off could be nice,
> at the CLI level or even globally. IMHO.
Yeah, maybe we can have a more conservative default together with an
environment variable to tweak it.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-19 22:06 [bug#45327] [PATCH] git: Periodically delete least-recently-used cached checkouts Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-20 10:46 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-12-20 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-20 14:16 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-12-21 10:26 ` zimoun
2020-12-22 13:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 15:19 ` zimoun
2021-01-07 9:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-01-07 10:09 ` [bug#45327] [PATCH v2] " Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-07 12:40 ` zimoun
2021-01-13 15:47 ` bug#45327: [PATCH] " Ludovic Courtès
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