add cache with os tag and auto chache clean-up

.github/actions/cache-clean/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+name: cache-clean
+description: 'steps to clean the old caches before creating new ones'
+
+inputs:
+  GH_TOKEN:
+    description: 'Github token for the cache cleaning'
+    required: true
+
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    - name: Debug gh CLI
+      run: |
+        gh --version
+        gh auth status
+        gh extension list
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Update GitHub CLI
+      run: sudo apt-get install gh
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Install and Verify gh-actions-cache Extension
+      run: |
+        gh extension install actions/gh-actions-cache || exit 1
+        gh extension list | grep gh-actions-cache || (echo "Extension installation failed" && exit 1)
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Test actions-cache list
+      run: |
+        gh actions-cache list -R R3BRootGroup/R3BRoot -L 5 || echo "Failed to list caches"
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Cleanup
+      run: |
+        echo "Fetching list of cache keys"
+        cacheKeys=$(gh actions-cache list -R R3BRootGroup/R3BRoot -L 100 | cut -f 1 | grep -v 'build-deps') || exit 1
+
+        set +e
+        echo "Deleting old caches..."
+        for cacheKey in $cacheKeys
+        do
+            gh actions-cache delete $cacheKey -R R3BRootGroup/R3BRoot --confirm || echo "Failed to delete $cacheKey"
+        done
+        echo "Done"
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.GH_TOKEN }}

.github/actions/cache-save/action.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ name: cache-save
 description: 'steps to cache R3BRoot and ucesb'
 
 inputs:
-  r3b-dev-key:
-    description: 'key for r3b dev cache'
-    required: false
-    default: ''
   cache-name:
     description: 'repository name'
     required: true
@@ -20,12 +16,12 @@ runs:
         path: |
           ${{ env.UCESB_DIR }}
           ${{ github.workspace }}/build/_deps
-        key: build-deps
+        key: build-deps-${{ matrix.os }}
 
     - name: cache r3b
       if: matrix.save != 'false'
       id: cache-r3b
       uses: actions/cache/save@v4
       with:
         path: .ccache
-        key: r3b-build-${{ inputs.cache-name }}-${{ inputs.r3b-dev-key }}
+        key: r3b-build-${{ inputs.cache-name }}-${{ matrix.os }}

.github/actions/install-deps/action.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ name: install-deps
 description: 'steps to install deps'
 
 inputs:
-  r3b-dev-key:
-    description: 'key for r3b dev cache'
-    required: false
-    default: ''
   cache-name:
     description: 'repository name'
     required: false
@@ -22,17 +18,18 @@ runs:
         path: |
           ${{ env.UCESB_DIR }}
           ${{ github.workspace }}/build/_deps
-        key: build-deps
+        key: build-deps-${{ matrix.os }}
 
     - name: cache r3b
       if: inputs.cache-name != 'false' && github.event_name == 'pull_request'
       id: cache-r3b
       uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
       with:
         path: .ccache
-        key: r3b-build-${{ inputs.cache-name }}-${{ inputs.r3b-dev-key }}
+        key: r3b-build-${{ inputs.cache-name }}-${{ matrix.os }}
         restore-keys: |
-          r3b-build-${{ inputs.cache-name }}-
+          r3b-build-${{ inputs.cache-name }}-${{ matrix.os }}
+          r3b-build-
           r3b-build-
 
     - name: build ucesb

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ name: CI-CD
 on:
   # Triggers the workflow in case of a push or pull request events
   push:
-    branches: [ dev ]
+    branches: [ dev, edwin_fix_ci ]
   pull_request:
     branches: [ dev ]
 
@@ -61,7 +61,19 @@ on:
 # parallelly. As has been specified above, all the jobs below will be
 # triggered either by a pull request or a merge of a pull request.
 jobs:
+  # The job to clean the old caches before new caches are created when the PR is merged.
+  cache-cleanup:
+    if: github.event_name == 'push'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: clean-cache
+        uses: './.github/actions/pre-build'
+        with:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+  # The job to run the main CI pipelines
   build-test:
+    needs: cache-cleanup
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # A strategy matrix gives different settings separately to different jobs
     # which are run parallelly.
@@ -177,7 +189,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: './.github/actions/install-deps'
         with: 
           cache-name: ${{ matrix.cache }}
-          r3b-dev-key: ${{ env.cacheSHA }}
 
       # A self-defined composite action for the cmake configuration and build
       # of r3broot (along with necessary dep repos).