yay -Sc does not clean the .cache/yay folder

[arch-user-france1]

Affected Version

yay v11.1.2 - libalpm v13.0.1

Describe the bug

Reproduction Steps

1. yay -Sc
2. I chose yes for every question, make sure that you at least say yes if it asks you to clean the yay cache.
3. See result: du -hc ~/.cache/yay | tail -1 said me 37 GB.

Expected behavior

Yay would clean the cache .cache/yay

Output

{
        "aururl": "https://aur.archlinux.org",
        "buildDir": "/home/france1/.cache/yay",
        "editor": "",
        "editorflags": "",
        "makepkgbin": "makepkg",
        "makepkgconf": "",
        "pacmanbin": "pacman",
        "pacmanconf": "/etc/pacman.conf",
        "redownload": "no",
        "rebuild": "no",
        "answerclean": "",
        "answerdiff": "",
        "answeredit": "",
        "answerupgrade": "",
        "gitbin": "git",
        "gpgbin": "gpg",
        "gpgflags": "",
        "mflags": "",
        "sortby": "votes",
        "searchby": "name-desc",
        "gitflags": "",
        "removemake": "ask",
        "sudobin": "sudo",
        "sudoflags": "",
        "requestsplitn": 150,
        "completionrefreshtime": 7,
        "bottomup": true,
        "sudoloop": false,
        "timeupdate": false,
        "devel": false,
        "cleanAfter": false,
        "provides": true,
        "pgpfetch": true,
        "upgrademenu": true,
        "cleanmenu": true,
        "diffmenu": true,
        "editmenu": false,
        "combinedupgrade": false,
        "useask": false,
        "batchinstall": false,
        "singlelineresults": false,
        "version": "11.1.2"
}

Note: There was no feedback at all, it just asked for all the file locations and then closed. What did I answer wrong? And this thing was here: Fehler: Konnte Datei /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gedit-plugins-41.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst nicht öffnen: Truncated zstd input

[pulga10]

See my comment here: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/772#issuecomment-1152890843

I'm having the same problem. The issue seems to be, that the dialogues cannot handle non-english keyboard input. In my case (german) it asks [J/N] instead of [Y/N], however pressing J, Y or Z (since Y and Z are swapped in german layout) is interpreted as "no". A workaround is just pressing Return on the last prompt.

Edit: This doesn't apply to the pacman prompts, only yay (i.e. the last one)

[arch-user-france1]

Maybe nothing happened because it 'removes old packages in caches' and not every package.

[Jguer]

yay v11.2.0 should have fixed the issues related with the german locale and the input props. Could you give a try?

[pulga10]

yay v11.2.0 should have fixed the issues related with the german locale and the input props. Could you give a try?

For yay -Scc it works now for me, for yay -Sc not (still only pressing return works).

[douglascamata]

I have the same issue and I don't use german locale.

❯ yay --version
yay v11.2.0.r2.g0fdfe79 - libalpm v13.0.1

[Jguer]

Do you use any other locale @douglascamata ?

[douglascamata]

Nope, I think I use en-US. 🤔

Let me try to confirm it after work and I'll let you know exactly which one I use.

[douglascamata]

Here's my locale configuration:

❯ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[mihalycsaba]

hey, I don't think it clears my cache

[sudo] password for csaba: 
Packages to keep:
  All locally installed packages

Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] n

Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] n

Build directory: /home/csaba/.cache/yay
:: Do you want to remove all other AUR packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing AUR packages from cache...
:: Do you want to remove ALL untracked AUR files? [Y/n] y
removing untracked AUR files from cache...
Removing proton-ge-custom-2:GE.Proton7.37-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Removing wine-gecko-2.47.3-x86.tar.xz
Removing wine-gecko-2.47.3-x86_64.tar.xz
Removing wine-mono-7.3.1-x86.tar.xz

[csaba@csaba-mini ~]$ du -sh /home/csaba/.cache/yay/
6.7G    /home/csaba/.cache/yay/

[csaba@csaba-mini yay]$ ls
adw-gtk3                   libgbinder                python-steamgriddb
afdko                      libglibutil               python-thefuzz
android-studio             libucl-git                python-ufonormalizer
anydesk-bin                mangohud                  python-ufoprocessor
apostrophe                 mingw-w64-tools           python-vdf
appimagelauncher           newm-git                  spotify
asf                        onlyoffice-bin            steamos-compositor-plus
bitstower-markets          patool                    steamtinkerlaunch
bottles                    proton                    stremio
completion.cache           proton-ge-custom          teamviewer
dotnet-core-5.0-bin        protontricks              tela-icon-theme
fvs                        psautohint                timeshift
galaxybudsclient-bin       python-booleanoperations  tor-browser
geforcenow-electron        python-dasbus             vcs.json
google-chrome              python-defcon             ventoy-bin
goverlay-bin               python-fontmath           visual-studio-code-bin
heroic-games-launcher-bin  python-fontparts          vkbasalt
hikari                     python-fontpens           waydroid
icoextract                 python-gbinder            waydroid-image
jellyfin                   python-imageio            wine-ge-custom
jellyfin-media-player      python-mutatormath
lib32-mangohud             python-pyclipper

[csaba@csaba-mini proton-ge-custom]$ ls
0001-AUR-pkgbuild-changes.patch  liberation-fonts
dav1d                            openvr
dxil-spirv                       OpenXR-SDK
dxvk                             PKGBUILD
dxvk-nvapi                       proton-cargo
ffmpeg                           protonfixes-gloriouseggroll
glslang                          proton-ge-custom
graphene                         proton-ge-custom.install
gst-libav                        SPIRV-Headers
gst-orc                          vkd3d-proton
gst-plugins-bad                  vkd3d-valve
gst-plugins-base                 Vulkan-Headers
gst-plugins-good                 Vulkan-Loader
gst-plugins-rs                   wine-staging
gst-plugins-ugly                 wine-valve
gstreamer 

[mihalycsaba]

here's my locale and yay version, I'm on endeavouros(arch)

[csaba@csaba-mini yay]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[csaba@csaba-mini yay]$ yay --version
yay v11.3.0 - libalpm v13.0.1