Support for custom Ollama models directory (based on $OLLAMA_MODELS variable)

[mcrose]

Why:

I runned out of space in my home directory so I moved to a second HHDD the Ollama config folder as describe in Setting Environment Variables on Linux, but whe I executed ./mvnw quarkus:dev or quarkus dev it created again ~.ollama folder again.

So:
I forked and made the changes to make it work.

Steps:

• declare in your .bashrc or .zshrc: export OLLAMA_MODELS=/newPathTo/ollama
• move ~.ollama/* to /newPathTo/ollama/ or just remove the current directory
• run: quarkus dev

branch: support_for_ollama_models_custom_directory

[geoand]

Thanks for reporting, but I am not exactly sure what you are proposing that this extension should do. Can you elaborate?

[mcrose]

just check if the enviroment variable OLLAMA_MODELS exists

actually by default, the code only checks for the home user .ollama directory, if not exits it creates

but what if you decide to move it somewhere else? that is the porpuse of this.

[geoand]

🙏🏽

[geoand]

Mind giving #1712 a try?

[mcrose]

great!
works fine

[geoand]

Thanks for checking!