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Berrangé wrote: > For the Windows msys2 CI job we install many packages using pacman > and use the GitLab cache to preserve the pacman cache across CI > runs. While metadata still needs downloading, this avoids pacman > re-downloading packages from msys2 if they have not changed. > > The problem is that pacman never automatically purges anything > from its package cache. Thus the GitLab cache is growing without > bound and packing/unpacking the cache is consuming an increasing > amount of time in the CI job. > > If we run 'pacman -Sc' /after/ installing our desired package set, > it will purge any cached downloaded packages that are not matching > any installed package. > > This will (currently) cap the pacman download cache at approx > 256 MB. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé > --- > .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > See a test job with this change, plus a find across the msys > pacman cache, showing the cleanup effects.... > > Before cleanup: > > https://gitlab.com/berrange/qemu/-/jobs/11679136531#L34 > > After cleanup: > > https://gitlab.com/berrange/qemu/-/jobs/11679136531#L1126 > > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml > index 1e6a01bd9a..6e1135d8b8 100644 > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml > @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ msys2-64bit: > mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf > mingw-w64-x86_64-python > mingw-w64-x86_64-zstd" > + - .\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman -Sc --noconfirm" > - Write-Output "Running build at $(Get-Date -Format u)" > - $env:JOBS = $(.\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc nproc) > - $env:CHERE_INVOKING = 'yes' # Preserve the current working directory Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth I just tested this with some additional "ls -lR /var/cache/pacman" added, and it seems to work as expected: https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/11680562487#L293 This just removed an old "mingw-w64-x86_64-python-3.12.11-4-any.pkg.tar.zst" package, but kept the newer 3.12.12 package (and all other currently installed packages) around. Thus also: Tested-by: Thomas Huth