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Old extension versions are not cleaned up

See original GitHub issue

OS/Web Information

Web Browser: Chromium
Local OS: Ubuntu 22.04
Remote OS: Ubuntu 22.04
Remote Architecture: amd64
code-server --version: 3.12.0 4cd55f94c0a72f05c18cea070e10b969996614d2

Steps to Reproduce

Install extensions
Wait a few months to get many updates
Check the content (and size) of ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/

Expected

Only one version per extension

Actual

Plenty of versions, e.g.:

$ du -hs ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python* | sort -h
59M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.10.1365161279
60M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.4.12954
73M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.1.502429796
73M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.2.582707922
73M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.2.625869727
73M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.2.633441544
73M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.5.840043038
77M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.8.1159798656
83M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.3.680753044
83M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2021.4.765268190
85M     ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.6.24221
110M    ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.9.34911
129M    ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.2.63072
147M    ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.6.91350
161M    ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.11.50794
196M    ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2019.10.44104
197M    ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2020.1.58038

Notes

Apparently, vscode should clean old extension when it is restarted: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/132896 A restart of code-server doesn’t do that.

PS: thank you for working and maintaining this nice project!

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

code-ashercommented, Nov 29, 2021

I am not sure if we were doing this before! It sounds like there is probably some cleanup routine somewhere we should be calling.

0reactions

jsjoeiocommented, May 31, 2022

@matttbe must have been fixed upstream - thanks for confirming!

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