PkgFsck.jl

PkgFsck.jl is a package to find corrupted packages and artifacts in depots and fix them.

Packages

To show how it works we download a package and corrupt it:

(jl_qgafe7) pkg> add Example

julia> example_path = Base.find_package("Example")
"/home/kc/.julia/packages/Example/aqsx3/src/Example.jl"

julia> touch(joinpath(dirname(example_path), "corruption"))
"/home/kc/.julia/packages/Example/aqsx3/src/corruption"

julia> import PkgFsck

julia> failures = PkgFsck.fsck_packages();

julia> filter!(x->!x.has_build_file, failures) # See Caveats below
1-element Vector{PkgFsck.PkgFsckFailure}:
 PkgFsck.PkgFsckFailure("/home/kc/.julia/packages/Example/aqsx3", UUID("7876af07-990d-54b4-ab0e-23690620f79a"), SHA1("46e44e869b4d90b96bd8ed1fdcf32244fddfb6cc"), false)

julia> foreach(PkgFsck.redownload, failures) # Removes the corrupted folder and redownloads the package

Caveats

Build

Packages using the deps/build.jl file often give false positives since they tend to create files into the package directory and there is no way to know which files are part of the original download. These packages have the has_build_file property set to true in the returned objects of fsck_packages allowing them to be filtered out.

Coverage files

The coverage system in Julia tend to put .cov file into the package directories. By default, fsck will try to clean these out, this can be set with the remove_cov_files::Bool keyword to fsck.

Artifacts