
Add cache garbage collection ### What does this PR try to resolve? This introduces a new garbage collection system which can track the last time files were used in cargo's global cache, and delete old, unused files either automatically or manually. ### How should we test and review this PR? This is broken up into a large number of commits, and each commit should have a short overview of what it does. I am breaking some of these out into separate PRs as well (unfortunately GitHub doesn't really support stacked pull requests). I expect to reduce the size of this PR if those other PRs are accepted. I would first review `unstable.md` to give you an idea of what the user side of this looks like. I would then skim over each commit message to give an overview of all the changes. The core change is the introduction of the `GlobalCacheTracker` which is an interface to a sqlite database which is used for tracking the timestamps. ### Additional information I think the interface for this will almost certainly change over time. This is just a stab to create a starting point where we can start testing and discussing what actual user flags should be exposed. This is also intended to start the process of getting experience using sqlite, and getting some testing in real-world environments to see how things might fail. I'd like to ask for the review to not focus too much on bikeshedding flag names and options. I expect them to change, so this is by no means a concrete proposal for where it will end up. For example, the options are very granular, and I would like to have fewer options. However, it isn't clear how that might best work. The size-tracking options almost certainly need to change, but I do not know exactly what the use cases for size-tracking are, so that will need some discussion with people who are interested in that. I decided to place the gc commands in cargo's `cargo clean` command because I would like to have a single place for users to go for deleting cache artifacts. It may be possible that they get moved to another command, however introducing new subcommands is quite difficult (due to shadowing existing third-party commands). Other options might be `cargo gc`, `cargo maintenance`, `cargo cache`, etc. But there are existing extensions that would interfere with. There are also more directions to go in the future. For example, we could add a `cargo clean info` subcommand which could be used for querying cache information (like the sizes and such). There is also the rest of the steps in the original proposal at https://hackmd.io/U_k79wk7SkCQ8_dJgIXwJg for rolling out sqlite support. See #12633 for the tracking issue
Cargo
Cargo downloads your Rust project’s dependencies and compiles your project.
To start using Cargo, learn more at The Cargo Book.
To start developing Cargo itself, read the Cargo Contributor Guide.
Code Status
Code documentation: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/cargo/
Installing Cargo
Cargo is distributed by default with Rust, so if you've got rustc
installed
locally you probably also have cargo
installed locally.
Compiling from Source
Requirements
Cargo requires the following tools and packages to build:
cargo
andrustc
- A C compiler for your platform
git
(to clone this repository)
Other requirements:
The following are optional based on your platform and needs.
-
pkg-config
— This is used to help locate system packages, such aslibssl
headers/libraries. This may not be required in all cases, such as using vendored OpenSSL, or on Windows. -
OpenSSL — Only needed on Unix-like systems and only if the
vendored-openssl
Cargo feature is not used.This requires the development headers, which can be obtained from the
libssl-dev
package on Ubuntu oropenssl-devel
with apk or yum or theopenssl
package from Homebrew on macOS.If using the
vendored-openssl
Cargo feature, then a static copy of OpenSSL will be built from source instead of using the system OpenSSL. This may require additional tools such asperl
andmake
.On macOS, common installation directories from Homebrew, MacPorts, or pkgsrc will be checked. Otherwise it will fall back to
pkg-config
.On Windows, the system-provided Schannel will be used instead.
LibreSSL is also supported.
Optional system libraries:
The build will automatically use vendored versions of the following libraries. However, if they are provided by the system and can be found with pkg-config
, then the system libraries will be used instead:
libcurl
— Used for network transfers.libgit2
— Used for fetching git dependencies.libssh2
— Used for SSH access to git repositories.libz
(aka zlib) — Used for data compression.
It is recommended to use the vendored versions as they are the versions that are tested to work with Cargo.
Compiling
First, you'll want to check out this repository
git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo.git
cd cargo
With cargo
already installed, you can simply run:
cargo build --release
Adding new subcommands to Cargo
Cargo is designed to be extensible with new subcommands without having to modify Cargo itself. See the Wiki page for more details and a list of known community-developed subcommands.
Releases
Cargo releases coincide with Rust releases. High level release notes are available as part of Rust's release notes. Detailed release notes are available in this repo at CHANGELOG.md.
Reporting issues
Found a bug? We'd love to know about it!
Please report all issues on the GitHub issue tracker.
Contributing
See the Cargo Contributor Guide for a complete introduction to contributing to Cargo.
License
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See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.
Third party software
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In binary form, this product includes software that is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, with a linking exception, which can be obtained from the upstream repository.
See LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY for details.