I have been reading up on artifactory (and similary artifact repositories) for a few days. It appears as though it will be suitable for my needs, but initial setup with the demo system don't appear to give me exactly what I need, but I'm betting that I'm missing some things.
1. I need to manage the following data types: * Directories of data (map data actually) that consist of files and sub folders) * .iso files * rpms (yes I see this is one thing that shouldn't be an issue) * Other directory structures consisting of binary files, text files, etc... (example would be a customized operating system install - linux) 2. For the Map data type above, I created a sample map repo called maps-USA and uploaded the map set. This was easy and worked well. I need to be able to do the following types of things with it: * validate the entire set of data is the correct data set (i.e. checksum of the entire directory) as well as the individual files (which is did see is available albeit a little cumbersome to go through each file) * Do a checkout/download of the entire maps-usa repo either from the web interface and via a CLI type checkout. I could only download one file at a time * Manage the repo by tagging it as a release or snapshot * Some mapsets may be subsets/supersets of other mapsets thus containing the same files. I think I read that artifactory will deal with duplicate files across local repositories such that it won't add the same binary twice, correct? 3. Same basically goes for the other data types i need to manage, although RPMS i have some special considerations: * In addition to standard RPM management, I have projects that are often based on the same Operating System (i.e. RHEL 6), but have different sets of RPMS/packages and/or versions that need to be installed. I have to manage these due to version control policies but don't like duplicating data like I do now. I'd like to be able to create repositories for each "project" like: project-alpha, project-beta, project-charlie that may share some of the RPMS but not all and have only one overall set of RPMS stored. can Artifactory help? 4. I see discussions about tagging repos as snapshots or releases, etc... but I do not see how/where to manage this. I'm guessing this has more to do with me not having a maven repository? I'm not terribly familiar with Maven. Do I need to first create a maven repo to manage my data, then link that to artifactory? what am I missing? Thanks for reading the above, and I appreciate any feedback you can provide. Thanks! -bp -- View this message in context: http://forums.jfrog.org/Need-help-with-determining-if-Artifactory-is-suitable-for-my-needs-tp7578757.html Sent from the Artifactory - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Artifactory-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/artifactory-users
