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diff --git a/doc/book/src/development/release_process.md b/doc/book/src/development/release_process.md index 8591fd9f..e6f9e608 100644 --- a/doc/book/src/development/release_process.md +++ b/doc/book/src/development/release_process.md @@ -92,10 +92,21 @@ caching our development dependencies. *Currently there is no automatic garbage collection of the cache: we should monitor its growth. Hopefully, we can erase it totally without breaking any build, the next build will only be slower.* +In practise, we concluded that we do not want to cache all the compilation dependencies. +Instead, we want to cache the toolchain we use to build Garage each time we change it. +So we removed from Drone any automatic update of the cache and instead handle them manually with: + +``` +source ~/.awsrc +nix-shell --run 'refresh_toolchain' +``` + +Internally, it will run `nix-build` on `nix/toolchain.nix` and send the output plus its depedencies to the cache. + To erase the cache: ``` -mc rm --recursive --force 'garage/nix/*' +mc rm --recursive --force 'garage/nix/' ``` ### Publishing Garage |