/var/lib/waagent zip files

Hi Everyone,

I know we had some fixes for this issue in the past: https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/issues/1730

We still see cases where there’s tons of old zip files in the folder and recently I noticed that specifically the WALinuxAgent install files are still there?

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.44
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    502139 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.44.zip
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.45
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    517593 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.45.zip
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.46
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    530463 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.46.zip
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.48.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    531494 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.48.1.zip
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.49.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    547951 Sep 15 19:42 WALinuxAgent-2.2.49.2.zip
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Oct  6 19:43 WALinuxAgent-2.2.51
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    547144 Oct  6 19:43 WALinuxAgent-2.2.51.zip

Are there any plans to manage these leftovers better moving forward? We have many users that ask about it.

As far as old ZIP files, if a user wants to clean up let’s say 100+ VM’s what is the safest way to do that? Do we have any proper guidance on how to do that safely?

Would let’s say:

stop the agent
mv /var/lib/waagent /var/lib/waagent.old
start the waagent
cp /var/lib/waagent.old/ovf-env.xml /var/lib/waagent/lib

Be a good solution so the waagent would re-download the most recent extensions only?

Thank you, Marco