Caching directories inside $HOME

As far as I can see, currently cache supports only caching of files inside current directory (or by absolute path). But Gradle places it's caches inside ~/.gradle directory. Currently I had tried:

cache:
  paths:
  - ~/.gradle/caches
  - ~/.gradle/wrapper

and

cache:
  paths:
  - $HOME/.gradle/caches
  - $HOME/.gradle/wrapper

But neither of these works - runner just outputs INFO[0000] No files to archive. and does not cache anything.

Thanks. I'll verify that.

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+1 for this, i've exactly the same problem with gradle and maven.

I am having a similar problem. I am trying to cache /root/foo/, and all I get in response is:

INFO[0000] No files to archive.

I could work around this by setting the environment variable GRADLE_USER_HOME:

image: java:openjdk-8-jdk

before_script:
  - export GRADLE_USER_HOME=`pwd`/.gradle

cache:
  paths:
    - .gradle/wrapper
    - .gradle/caches

build:
  stage: build
  script:
    - ./gradlew assemble

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - ./gradlew check

Now I get

Archiving cache...
INFO[0000] Creating archive cache.tgz ...               
INFO[0010] Done!

at the end of the build. Unfortunately, Gradle seems to ignore the cached wrapper and downloads it on every build anyway.

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We run the caching outside the build container. So you can cache absolute paths, but since only /builds and /cache is transferred you have no-way to cache container-local files.

You need to relocate your container-local directory (like: /root/.cabal, /root/.gradle) to /cache. If you put that in /cache you don't need to use the cache in .gitlab-ci.yml directive then, since this is already preserved between builds.

I'll create separate document to describe this behavior in details and possible solutions.

Caching is currently the best to use to cache files stored in your build directory.

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Currently I have no plans to support caching outside of build folder. This will most likely land in one of the future releases.

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mentioned in issue pages/pages.gitlab.io#20 (closed)

So this still doesn't work?

For the sake of helping anyone else who wonders what is the recipe for some other popular package managers, here it is.

Bower

Create a new .bowerrc file with:

{
    "storage":{
        "packages": ".bower-cache/"
    }
}

Npm

Create a new .npmrc file with:

cache=.node-cache

Composer

In the composer.json file, set:

{
    "config": {
        "cache-dir": ".composer-cache"
    }
}

gitlab-ci.yml file

Personally I like to use the global cache statement and override the key, so each build on any branch hit the cache. Just realize that the cache may grow over time...

cache:
  key: "ALL"
  paths:
    - .bower-cache/
    - .node-cache/
    - .composer-cache/

.gitignore file

Don't forget,

/.node-cache
/.bower-cache
/.composer-cache

mentioned in issue showcheap/android-ci#6 (closed)

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