[question] Is there a way to control the size of Conan cache?

[harsszegi]

Hi,
we bumped into the situation on our CI system that Conan's cache practically grows endlessly over time.
Is there a plan / way to "garbage collect" - via Conan itself (e.g. a command line extension to conan, or a separate python script packages into the Conan distribution, I don't know) - the cache? I mean like erase the oldest N entries to make sure that the cache's size doesn't go above X Gb?
Thanks,

[czoido]

Hi @harsszegi,

Yes, that's something we are discussing to include in Conan 2.X. some kind of least-recently-used removal for Conan packages. Also, that could be added as an extension with a custom command, or some similar mechanism.

[harsszegi]

Aok, thanks a lot for the info!

[memsharded]

Conan has finally implemented this in #14054, it has been merged it will be in next 2.0.14 release!