Clearing Nuget Package Cache

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What is the best way to trim down the Package Cache in the Octopus data folder?
Is there a retention type policy? Currently we are creating a deploy on check-in to TeamCity so the cache can grow quite big. Also the Nuget packages are already stored as artifacts on the TeamCity server so don’t necessarily need them on both.

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Hi Eli,

We automatically delete files from the cache once they are more than 20 days old. Is that too long for you?

Paul

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Is it safe to manually delete them if we want a lower retention than that?

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for your prompt response.
20 days is good. the main thing is that it is automatically trimming. That being said it would be good if I reduce the days as the Nuget Packages are in Teamcity so I don’t really need them.

Now I need to now find out how TeamCity handles old artifacts and how I can automatically trim that.

Thanks again,
Eli

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Peter,

Yes, it is. If a file doesn’t exist in the cache we’ll re-download it.

Eli,

We’ll consider adding a setting (or lowering the default value). Thanks for the feedback.

Paul