Re: [PATCH 3/7] gitlab: clean packages in cirrus tasks

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:58:54AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 04/12/2024 20.48, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > The FreeBSD VM is somewhat low on disk space after all QEMU build deps
> > are installed and a full QEMU build performed. Purging the package
> > manager cache is a simple thing that reclaims about 1 GB of space.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml       | 2 ++
> >   .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus/build.yml | 1 +
> >   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> > index 16411f3d2b..2bd3cb35c9 100644
> > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> > @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ x64-freebsd-14-build:
> >       CIRRUS_VM_RAM: 8G
> >       UPDATE_COMMAND: pkg update; pkg upgrade -y
> >       INSTALL_COMMAND: pkg install -y
> > +    CLEAN_COMMAND: pkg clean -y --all
> >       CONFIGURE_ARGS: --target-list-exclude=arm-softmmu,i386-softmmu,microblaze-softmmu,mips64el-softmmu,mipsel-softmmu,mips-softmmu,ppc-softmmu,sh4eb-softmmu,xtensa-softmmu
> >       TEST_TARGETS: check
> > @@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ aarch64-macos-build:
> >       CIRRUS_VM_IMAGE_NAME: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sonoma
> >       UPDATE_COMMAND: brew update
> >       INSTALL_COMMAND: brew install
> > +    CLEAN_COMMAND: brew cleanup --prune=all
> 
> Are we also short on disk space in the macOS jobs? Otherwise, I wonder
> whether we should rather skip the step here to save some seconds of run
> time?

I've not measured it, but I've not seen disk space issues on macOS. Still
this command is quick and lost in the noise of the package install process
which will vary depending on network performance and homebrew server load.


With regards,
Daniel
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