Clearing the cache folder

[klausholstjacobsen]

Hello

Conan 2.9.3
OS: WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04

I would like to completely clear my cache folder.

I did conan remove "*" -c and conan cache clean --build --source --temp --backup-sources --download -vvv "*"

But I am still left with 13G of files in ~/.conan2/sources/s

My initial though was that the --source argument on conan cache clean... would take care of that, but it doesn't.

How do I clear my cache folder?

Regards
Klaus

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[AbrilRBS]

Hi @klausholstjacobsen thanks for the question.

The sources/s folder is meant for the local backup source blobs, and is used when core.sources:download_cache is not set.

Checking the code, there's a case where those files won't be deleted when they have no package reference attached (ie, they have been downloaded only as part of a conan source), we'll review the behaviour and come back to you, but for now it's possible that the only way to remove the folder is manually.

[memsharded]

#18018 has been merged. it will make conan cache clean remove also the "unknown" references for backuped sources that were not being deleted before. It will be in next Conan 2.15, thanks for your feedback!