What manual intervention does yay expect here?

[ricklinux]

You need to look at the output when you run the package build. In order to see the info you would have to run it again. It tells you the information. If it didn’t build and install then there is only the package build cache left. You can remove that using yay commands.

Removing old packages from yay cache in home directory

yay -Scc Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove ALL files from cache? [y/N] n Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] n Build directory: /home/joe/.cache/yay ==> Do you want to remove ALL AUR packages from cache? [Y/n] y removing AUR packages from cache...