Thanks Pascal. Yes, all the items in the .blobstore directory are downloaded 
binaries.

I am wondering why does P2 keep this cache? We already have another cache in 
"p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.repository/cache" which holds repository 
contents.jar and artifacts.jar files.

If we keep all the downloaded artifacts in p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/cache 
is there a p2 policy to delete old files (older than some days)? If not we will 
use up a lot of disk space.


From: Pascal Rapicault 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: P2 developer discussions 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, 26 November, 2012 2:12 PM
To: P2 developer discussions <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [p2-dev] How to delete org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/cache 
programmatically?

This cache is an ArtifactRepository so you should be able to flush it using the 
removeAll() method.
You can load this repository from the IArtifactRepositoryManager. The URI for 
this repo can be computed as follow:

              IAgentLocation location = getAgentLocation(agent);
              if (location == null)
                     returnnull;
              return 
URIUtil.append(location.getDataArea("org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core"), "cache/"); 
//$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$

You are saying that you have a lot of item in the .blobstore, can you confirm 
that these are all binaries?


From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Jin
Sent: November-26-12 1:51 PM
To: P2 developer discussions
Subject: [p2-dev] How to delete org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/cache 
programmatically?

I am working on a feature in our RCP product to install software from 
customized P2 repositories. Each build of that software produces one dedicated 
repository (labelled with the build id to make it unique).

Everything works fine. P2 can install multiple release builds of the software. 
However, I find out the "eclipse/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/cache" 
directory grows very big after I install several builds? Especially the 
".blobstore" directory contains all the downloaded artifacts.

Is there a way to programmatically delete this cache?

Thanks,
Andy
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