Files removed from repository are still being installed from cache

[borysiasty]

I removed some svgs from a repository, pressed Reload Repositories and Reinstall. The removed files are still present in both ~/.qgis2/resource_sharing and ~/QGIS/Resource Sharing directories

[havatv]

Thanks for reporting, @borysiasty.
What is the result if you first Uninstall and then Install?

Would users always want local files to be deleted when they have been removed from a repository?
At least for scripts (R and Python Processing), files are stored in their standard location in the local file system, sharing room with user scripts.

[borysiasty]

Unfortunately I won't find any time soon to prepare a test repo and verify it.

My intention was to allow some svgs get obsolete :) Imagine a repository, where new svgs appear every few months, so it's worth to run reinstall it from time to time. And if the repo maintainer wants to remove one of the svgs for any reason (duplicate, copyright issues, ugly, whatever), I looks odd to me to not let them go. But I don't insist.

It was all about symbols and svgs, placed in separate subdirectories for each repo. If scripts land in a common directory, it's a different story of course.

[havatv]

Good points, @borysiasty. I will look more into it, but not today...

[havatv]

@borysiasty, I have looked into this. It turns out that the dulwich library (that we use for git access) currently does not support removal of files (jelmer/dulwich#452).
I have tried a "hack" - removing the collection directory before pulling. See #108
The PR was just merged into master, and is included in the 0.13.1 version that is now on plugins.qgis.org.

It would be great if you could test:

1. get the new version using one of the following methods:

   • upgrade to 0.13.1 using the QGIS Plugin manager

   • download master and install manually

     1. download: https://github.com/QGIS-Contribution/QGIS-ResourceSharing/archive/master.zip
     2. unzip in your plugin directory
     3. remove the directory that contains your current Resource Sharing plugin

2. (re)start QGIS

3. if necessary, enable the plugin in the plugin manager

4. run the plugin and test if files removed from your repository are still present in the local repository and collection directories

Please re-open if this does not fix the issue.