On Fri 8 Sep 2017 at 11:22, Baptiste Mathus <m...@batmat.net> wrote: > Le 7 sept. 2017 17:00, "Tushar Kapila" <tgkp...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > I had to delete a directory once as i had pressed Ctrl-C while it was > downloading jars and a 0kb jar was created. This was in 2013, maybe it > downloads to a temp file and then create the final file? It took sometime > to debug. Builds were failing for no reason only on that test box, but > working fine on my dev box, lots of fun. > > > If you don't, and > > you have static (persistent) agents, very bad things will happen at some > point. > > Can you explain this? What agents? > > > Hehe, I was talking about Jenkins agents, sorry just realized I mixed my > MLs. I thought I was reading Jenkinsci-users one :).
Bad Ba(p)tiste™ ;-) > > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Baptiste Mathus <m...@batmat.net> wrote: > > > 2017-09-07 9:17 GMT+02:00 Guang Chao <guang.chao.1...@gmail.com>: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:31 AM, mingleizhang <zml13856086...@163.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello friends here. > > > > > > > > > > > > I would like ask a question ,it probably looks silly, but I > still > > > > want to know. As the subject said, when time do we need to delete > > > > .m2/repository files ? Does anyone improve my mind ? Thank you very > > much! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is no need to do this unless you are out of disk space. It will > > cause > > > no harm, but maven will redownload all dependencies again. So that will > > > slow you down a bit. > > > > > > > I am actually going to say the contrary. You should, at I'd even say, you > > *must* wipe out Maven repositories on a regular basis. If you don't, and > > you have static (persistent) agents, very bad things will happen at some > > point. > > > > So, yeah, redownloading it is going to add some time to build, but this > is > > a matter of speed vs. reproducibility, so better target > reproduciblity/non > > flakiness then see how to optimize, not the contrary. > > > > And obviously, *NEVER, EVER share that .m2/repository between running > > builds*. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Rice. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Guang <http://javadevnotes.com/java-string-to-integer-examples/> > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards > Tushar Kapila > -- Sent from my phone
