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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-04-18 23:12:35 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-04-18 23:19:30 +0200
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publish: Remove expired cache entries when '--ttl' is used.
* guix/scripts/publish.scm (narinfo-files): New procedure. (render-narinfo/cached)[delete-file]: New procedure. Add call to 'maybe-remove-expired-cache-entries'. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish): Document the interation between --cache and --ttl.
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@@ -6600,6 +6600,9 @@ The ``baking'' process is performed by worker threads. By default, one
thread per CPU core is created, but this can be customized. See
@option{--workers} below.
+When @option{--ttl} is used, cached entries are automatically deleted
+when they have expired.
+
@item --workers=@var{N}
When @option{--cache} is used, request the allocation of @var{N} worker
threads to ``bake'' archives.
@@ -6614,6 +6617,9 @@ This allows the user's Guix to keep substitute information in cache for
guarantee that the store items it provides will indeed remain available
for as long as @var{ttl}.
+Additionally, when @option{--cache} is used, cached entries that have
+not been accessed for @var{ttl} may be deleted.
+
@item --nar-path=@var{path}
Use @var{path} as the prefix for the URLs of ``nar'' files
(@pxref{Invoking guix archive, normalized archives}).