aliBuild cleanup of installation area

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1

Is there a way to ask aliBuild to cleanup the installation directory ?
I work off a dev directory where I often switch branches of O2 and/or alidist for various tests. Turns out the installation directory keeps growing, e.g. for GEANT4 this is my current situation, where I do have 4 separate installations of GEANT4.
I’d like to keep only the last one (and the same for all the packages basically).

[ dev ]~/alice/dev/sw/osx_x86-64$ ll GEANT4/
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 16 avr 09:12 latest@ -> v10.4.2-6
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  8 avr 18:01 latest-berg-run3-impl4-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 18 fév 09:11 latest-berg-run3-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 10 mar 14:24 latest-debug-uldecoder-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  5 avr 15:15 latest-decoder-simplification-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 23 mar 18:31 latest-dev-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  1 avr 11:48 latest-master-next-root6@ -> v10.4.2-5
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  6 avr 13:52 latest-master-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  8 avr 12:17 latest-mch-mapping-manuchannel-to-dualsampachannel-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 16 jan 13:22 latest-mch-raw-data-decoder-o2@ -> v10.4.2-2
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 14 jan 19:24 latest-mch-raw-data-elecmap-o2@ -> v10.4.2-2
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  5 fév 22:37 latest-mch-raw-data-encoder-decrease-reliance-on-rdh-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 12 fév 11:55 latest-mch-raw-data-encoder-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 20 mar 11:41 latest-next-root6@ -> v10.4.2-5
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  6 avr 09:53 latest-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 16 avr 09:12 latest-pr-3357-o2@ -> v10.4.2-6
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B  4 fév 17:11 latest-release@ -> v10.4.2-5
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 24 mar 13:05 latest-uldecoder-sml-version-1-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
lrwxr-xr-x   1 laurent  staff     9B 13 mar 13:55 latest-uldecoder-sml-version-o2@ -> v10.4.2-4
drwxr-xr-x  10 laurent  staff   320B 14 jan 19:23 v10.4.2-2/
drwxr-xr-x  10 laurent  staff   320B  4 fév 12:17 v10.4.2-4/
drwxr-xr-x  10 laurent  staff   320B  4 fév 17:10 v10.4.2-5/
drwxr-xr-x  10 laurent  staff   320B 16 avr 09:11 v10.4.2-6/
2

aliBuild clean ?
Maybe aliBuild clean --aggressive-cleanup, but the one above should be enough.

3

You need to remove the symlinks to the installations which you do not need. aliBuild will not cleanup anything which is pointed by a latest-* as it is assumed to be somehow needed.