[FEATURE] Add support to list & remove the cache content

[ilg-ul]

What / Why

I am using pacote to download and cache, in addition to reasonably sized source libraries, of large binaries (like toolchain distributions, hundreds of MB) and I would appreciate a method to enumerate the content of the cache, such that later to be able to selectively remove some cached files. For now the only method I found was to completely remove the cache, which is far from optimal.

In other words, for the CLI app, I suggest two new commands, like list and remove, obviously matched by API calls.

Thank you,

Liviu

[isaacs]

I think this more properly belongs in https://github.com/npm/cacache

Care to add this issue over there? I believe @claudiahdz suggested writing a CLI for cacache, might be a good idea to include this idea in it.

[ilg-ul]

Ah, right, I forgot that cacache is a separate module.

If I get it correctly, the API allows to list and remove entries, I'll use them in my application and if I have any troubles I'll open issues there.

As for the cacache CLI, if complete, I expect it to include the commands to list and remove content.

I created a ticket there: npm/cacache#26

[isaacs]

Yes, cacache has an API to list and remove specific entries, so if you're using it in JS, that should give you what you need. (The readme should detail all that stuff.) Definitely let us know if it doesn't meet your needs :)

[ilg-ul]

let us know if it doesn't meet your needs :)

it generally does, I can list and remove entries, but I encountered a small problem with put.stream(), I opened a separate ticket for it (npm/cacache#27).