GNU bug report logs - #9958
24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:54:46 +0100

Package: Emacs,Gnus

My ~/News directory ballooned to several hundred megabytes since I
switched from Emacs 23.3/No Gnus 0.17 to Emacs 24/Gnus 5.13 six weeks
ago.  I found out this is because the agent stores copies of the full
articles, rather than just the headers, under ~/News/agent, as requested
in bug #8502.  Note that I don't use IMAP, just NNTP (Gmane).

While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
the cache and free up disk space.  I ended up running

find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete

which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.

Message #8 received at 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9958: 24.0.91;
	Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:04:56 +0100

Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes:

> While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
> the cache and free up disk space.  I ended up running
>
> find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete
>
> which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.

If you're using the Agent, then saying `M-x gnus-agent-expire' once in a
while is required (if you want stuff to be removed).  Doesn't that work?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

Message #11 received at 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9958: 24.0.91;
	Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:13:17 +0100

On 2012-01-06 20:04 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
>> While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
>> the cache and free up disk space.  I ended up running
>>
>> find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete
>>
>> which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.
>
> If you're using the Agent, then saying `M-x gnus-agent-expire' once in a
> while is required (if you want stuff to be removed).  Doesn't that work?

Apparently not, since gnus-agent-expire has been in my
gnus-exit-gnus-hook for several years, long before
gnus-agent-store-article was invented.

Cheers,
       Sven

Message #14 received at 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9958: 24.0.91;
	Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:29:02 +0100

Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Apparently not, since gnus-agent-expire has been in my
> gnus-exit-gnus-hook for several years, long before
> gnus-agent-store-article was invented.

Ah, right.  The new caching code didn't enter the messages into the
right Agent control structures, so they were never deleted.

Fixed now.  (That is, messages already cached by the new mechanism will
have to be deleted manually, but new messages should be expired the
normal way.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

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