Package Caching

[keith-lackey-steamroller-tech]

Our main repository is on the network and am trying to get the packages to cache locally to speed things up but I can't seem to figure it out.

C:\Users\keith\packages.cached>rez-config cache_packages_path
C:\Users\keith\packages.cached

C:\Users\keith\packages.cached>rez-config  default_cachable
True

C:\Users\keith\packages.cached>rez-env

You are now in a rez-configured environment.

> C:\Users\keith\packages.cached>dir
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 3456-3F03

 Directory of C:\Users\keith\packages.cached

01/04/2023  02:38 PM    <DIR>          .
01/04/2023  02:38 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/04/2023  02:38 PM    <DIR>          .sys
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  594,298,822,656 bytes free

As you can see my cache_packages_path variables is set to my local user directory "packages.cached" and my default_cachable is set to True but when i rez into my default environment it doesn't seem to trigger a cache of the packages. It has made a .sys folder which appears to mean the system did something but does not seem to have done anything else. What step am I overlooking?

[hughetop]

My only guess is because you went into an empty rez environment, so there was nothing to cache. Try going into a rez environment with some of your packages and see of those copy over to the cache.

[OlivierArgentieri]

I'm currently playing with rez package cache, i can detail some stuff on how i have setup things, maybe it will help.

On my rezconfig file i have add this :

cache_packages_path = r"<MyPathToCachedFolder>"

then

Cache per package

I have add this attrbute in one of my package, inside the package.py

cachable = True

you can see a better explanation in the documentation [here](you can see this example in the documentation here
)

default_cache per package inside rezconfig.py

If you want to centralize your default_cachable value per package you can with this:

default_cachable_per_package = {
    "nuke": False,
    "maya": True
}

you can see this example in the documentation here

And this should be work