Author: oching
Date: Tue Jul 1 23:10:59 2008
New Revision: 673289
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=673289&view=rev
Log:
[MRM-846]
added rules regarding activation of the purge criteria
Modified:
archiva/trunk/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/repositories.apt
Modified: archiva/trunk/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/repositories.apt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/archiva/trunk/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/repositories.apt?rev=673289&r1=673288&r2=673289&view=diff
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--- archiva/trunk/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/repositories.apt
(original)
+++ archiva/trunk/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/adminguide/repositories.apt Tue Jul
1 23:10:59 2008
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@
the repository. What if the artifact is large? Then disk space will
definitely be a problem. That's where Archiva's repository
purge feature comes in. Given a criteria to use -- by the number of days old
and by retention count, it would clean up the
repository by removing old snapshots.
+
+ Please take note that the by number of days old criteria is activated by
default (set to 100 days). In order to de-activate it and
+ use the by retention count criteria, you must set the Repository Purge By
Days Older field to 0. Another thing to note here is that
+ if the by number of days old criteria is activated, the retention count
would still be respected (See the Repository Purge By Days Older
+ section below for more details) but not the other way around.
Let's take a look at different behaviours for repository purge using the
following scenario:
@@ -162,7 +167,7 @@
If the repository purge by retention count field is set to 2, then only the
artifacts artifact-x-20070113.034619-3.jar,
artifact-x-20070113.034619-3.pom, artifact-x-20070203.028902-4.jar and
artifact-x-20070203.028902-4.pom will be retained
in the repository. The oldest snapshots will be deleted maintaining only a
number of snapshots equivalent to the set
- retention count.
+ retention count (regardless of how old or new the artifact is).
* Scanning a Database
