No way to purge cached disk images

[andypiper]

Once testdrive has been run and a disk image has been chosen, zsync grabs a copy from the interwebs and caches it in USERHOME/.cache/testdrive

Over time or if multiple images are tested, this could cause a lot of disk space to be used.

testdrive should have a --purge option to remove all cached .iso images and save space (more granular disk image management could be implemented, but this would be a quick-and-dirty way to reclaim space)

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hmm, really? You'd want testdrive to purge your cache? I'd certainly think that you'd rather go to your cache directory and clean it out yourself. Testdrive already prints a nice, informative message about cleaning up your cache dir on exit...

                info("You may wish to clean up the cache directory...")
                print(" %s" % CACHE)
                run("ls -HhalF %s/iso %s/img" % (CACHE, CACHE))
                run("du -sh --apparent-size %s 2>/dev/null || du -sh %s" % (CACHE, CACHE))

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Oh, wait, that message was buried in a conditional.

I'll print that message unconditionally on exit.

For now, i would rather people purge their own ISO's and IMG's rather that testdrive doing it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package testdrive - 1.22-0ubuntu1

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testdrive (1.22-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * testdrive:
    - fix run() return value checking, LP: #525438
    - more graceful error if ISO url 404's, LP: #491600
    - remove unnecessary warning when running VB, LP: #486884
    - offer to launch usb-creator after running VM, LP: #507537
    - add a -v|--version option, LP: #526548
    - unconditional print message about cleaning cache, LP: #526546
    - fix typo, LP: #526570
    - clean up output and prompt at the end of a desktop run
  * testdrive-select-iso, doc/testdrive-select-iso.1, debian/install,
    debian/rules:
    - move this file into testdrive, now that testdrive is in python too
  * testdriverc: quote sample CACHE value, LP: #524241
  * debian/control:
    - allow for non-free virtualbox in package dependencies, LP: #524704
    - drop suggests of testdrivegtk package, LP: #526490
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:31:34 -0600

[andypiper (andypiperuk)]

This is a great solution - thanks for the fix.