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stage package cache no longer working

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Project
snapcraft (launchpad)
Number
#1661383
Type
issue
State
closed
Author
~kyrofa
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Current evaluation

Closed without resolution. Stage package cache regression remains unfixed, likely abandoned due to inactivity.

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Issue body

Snapcraft currently caches stage-packages. For example: $ snapcraft pull Preparing to pull ros-base Pulling ros-base Preparing to fetch compilers... Fetching compilers... Get:1 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease [4025 B] Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Ign http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [463 kB] Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [387 kB] Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [144 kB] Fetched 1,305 kB in 0s (0 B/s) Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgmp10 amd64 2:6.1.0+dfsg-2 [240 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libmpfr4 amd64 3.1.4-1 [191 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libmpc3 amd64 1.0.3-1 [39.7 kB] <snip> Now check `~/.cache/snapcraft/apt/` and you'll see that snapcraft has cached all those debs. However, that cache doesn't seem to be used, as shown by this: $ snapcraft clean && snapcraft pull Cleaning up priming area Cleaning up staging area Cleaning up parts directory Preparing to pull ros-base Pulling ros-base Preparing to fetch compilers... Fetching compilers... Get:1 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease [4025 B] Ign http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Fetched 4,025 B in 0s (0 B/s) Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgmp10 amd64 2:6.1.0+dfsg-2 [240 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libmpfr4 amd64 3.1.4-1 [191 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libmpc3 amd64 1.0.3-1 [39.7 kB] <snip> See that the packages are being downloaded again instead of being unpacked from the cache.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b — — Closed without resolution. Stage package cache regression remains unfixed, likely abandoned due to inactivity.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b — — Closed without resolution. The stage package cache failure after clean operations was abandoned.

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