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Cache installed packages for future runs?

See original GitHub issue

Hi @eine! Do you know if there might be any way this action could cache packages that are installed with install so that they don’t need to be re-installed each time a workflow runs? My setup-msys2 runs often take about 7 minutes to update and then install packages so it’d be nice to skip that. Looks like @actions/tool-cache has the ability to cache directories:

https://github.com/actions/toolkit/tree/master/packages/tool-cache#cache

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Created 3 years ago
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daviwilcommented, Jun 6, 2020

I was still sitting on v0 so I wasn’t affected by the change. Just updated to v1, with the new release behavior alone you’ve shaved about 7 minutes off of my CI runs!

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einecommented, Jun 5, 2020

By NOT using the default installation, update time was reduced from 7-12 min to 1-3 min:

I’m closing this issue, because cache is supported in v1.1.0. See https://github.com/eine/setup-msys2/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v110 and https://github.com/eine/setup-msys2#cache.

@daviwil, using update: true will now use the custom installation. If you want to keep using the default installation in the environment (with the known caveats), set release: false too.

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