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It seems we're keeping a long list of old packages in /var/cache/zypp/packages/. It goes back to february 2023:

ls -lrth /var/cache/zypp/packages/devel_openQA/x86_64/openQA-common-*                                                                                                                             
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 459K Feb 15  2023 /var/cache/zypp/packages/devel_openQA/x86_64/openQA-common-4.6.1676474487.945e502-lp154.5577.1.x86_64.rpm                                                                

Not sure how to configure this to a lower duration.

We're keeping the packages of the following repos indefinitely:

grep -iR keeppackages=1 /etc/zypp/repos.d
/etc/zypp/repos.d/devel_openQA.repo:keeppackages=1
/etc/zypp/repos.d/devel_openQA_Leap.repo:keeppackages=1

Not sure whether zypper has a way of specifying the number of packages to keep. For now I just used `find /var/cache/zypp/packages -ipath 'devel_openqa' -mtime +365 -delete´ to delete everything older than a year.

I can setup a systemd service/timer to invoke a command like that periodically. I can also set keeppackages=0 but we probably enabled this for the sake of easier downgrades. So this is probably not a good solution.

One could also add the following to openqa-auto-update:

if [[ $OPENQA_PACKAGE_CACHE_RETENTION ]]; then
    find /var/cache/zypp/packages -type f -ipath '*devel*openQA*' -mtime "+$OPENQA_PACKAGE_CACHE_RETENTION" -delete
fi

Of course this breaks if one uses a different repository name or a different packagesdir. So it is probably not the best idea to add it to the generic openqa-auto-update script.