[Caml-list] Remove unneeded files in opam

[Caml-list] Remove unneeded files in opam

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

I'm using opam to configure a Linux virtual machine with some OCaml 
programs.

After correct opam configuration, I would like to remove all unneeded 
files that opam might keep on disk (cache, .tar.gz of downloaded files, 
eventually some remaining compilation tree, ...). Which opam magic 
command should I apply?

I've done a bit of googling and looked at the FAQ but found nothing.

Best regards,
david

Re: [Caml-list] Remove unneeded files in opam

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

Hi,

> After correct opam configuration, I would like to remove all unneeded files that opam might keep on disk (cache, .tar.gz of downloaded files, eventually some remaining compilation tree, ...). Which opam magic command should I apply?

Normally all the build files should already be cleaned-up, but it that's not the case the files live in ~/.opam/<switch>/build
The globally cached archive are stored in ~/.opam/archives
The repository archives are stored in ~/.opam/repo/<repo-name>/archives
If you have local pins, you could find some of the archives in ~/.opam/<switch>/packages.dev/<pkg-name>

> I've done a bit of googling and looked at the FAQ but found nothing.

Would make sense to add a command in opam to clean the archives, this is now tracked by https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2235

Best,
Thomas