stack-clean-old: Clean away old stack build artefacts

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A tool for removing old .stack-work/install builds and .stack/snapshots & programs for older ghc versions to recover diskspace.


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Versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.4, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.4, 0.4.5, 0.4.6, 0.4.7, 0.4.8, 0.5, 0.5.1
Change log ChangeLog.md
Dependencies base (>=4.8 && <5), directory (>=1.2.5), extra (>=1.4.3), filemanip, filepath, simple-cmd (>=0.1.4), simple-cmd-args (>=0.1.2) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2020-2021 Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
Author Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
Maintainer Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com>
Category Distribution
Home page https://github.com/juhp/stack-clean-old
Bug tracker https://github.com/juhp/stack-clean-old/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/juhp/stack-clean-old.git
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stack-clean-old

A small tool to clean away older Haskell stack snapshot builds and ghc versions to recover diskspace.

Usage

stack-clean-old [size|list|remove|keep-minor|purge-older|delete-work] [(-p|--project) | (-g|--ghc)] [--delete] [GHCVER]

Options:

and the subcommands:

size: prints the total size of the above directories (size does not take a GHCVER argument).

list: shows the total size and number of snapshots per ghc version (the GHCVER argument is optional).

remove: removes for the specified ghc version (the GHCVER argument is required).

keep-minor: removes the builds/installs for older minor releases of ghc major versions. If GHCVER is given then only minor versions older than it are removed.

purge-older and delete-work: see sections below

If you remove any needed snapshot builds for a version of ghc, then you would have to rebuild them again for any projects still using them, so removal should be used cautiously, but it can recover a lot of diskspace.

Since version 0.4 dry-run mode is now the default and one needs to use --delete (-d) for actual deletion of files, after checking the dry-run output first.

Example usage

To remove project builds for ghc-8.2.2:

$ stack-clean-old list
154M  8.2.2  (5 dirs)
154M  8.4.4  (5 dirs)
163M  8.6.5  (5 dirs)
$ stack-clean-old remove --delete -p 8.2.2

Remove stack ghc-8.4 snapshot builds and compilers before 8.4.4:

$ stack-clean-old list -g 8.4
421M  8.4.1  (7 dirs)
368M  8.4.2  (6 dirs)
489M  8.4.3  (8 dirs)
799M  8.4.4  (24 dirs)
$ stack-clean-old keep-minor -d -g 8.4.4
ghc-tinfo6-8.4.3 removed
7 dirs removed for 8.4.1
6 dirs removed for 8.4.2
8 dirs removed for 8.4.3

Incidently I build my projects across as many major Stackage LTS versions as possible (using my stack-all tool), and collectively this piles up to a lot of diskspace: so I wrote this tool to help manage that.

Purging older stack project builds

stack-clean-old purge-older

This command removes older stack builds from .stack-work/install/. By default it keeps 5 newest builds per ghc version.

The preservation/deletion is calculated and done per ghc version.

NB: If you regularly build your project for several branches/tags against the same LTS or ghc version then it is safer to avoid using purge-older.

Deleting all .stack-work/ subdirectories

stack-clean-old delete-work can be used to recursively remove all .stack-work/ dirs from a project to save space (seems same as stack clean --full).

stack-clean-old delete-work --all works from outside stack projects: please use with care.

Installation

Run stack install or cabal install

This tool complements stack-all which builds projects over LTS major versions and hence generates lot of stack builds.

cabal-clean is a similar tool for cleaning old cached cabal build files.

Contributing

BSD license

Project: https://github.com/juhp/stack-clean-old

Warning disclaimer

Use at your own risk: the author takes no responsibility for any loss or damaged caused by using this tool.

Bug reports, suggestions, and improvements are welcome.