Author: oching
Date: Tue Jul 28 10:37:37 2009
New Revision: 798480
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=798480&view=rev
Log:
[MRM-1182] add how delete released snapshots work in documentation
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=798480&r1=798479&r2=798480&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
28 10:37:37 2009
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
../artifact-x/2.0-SNAPSHOT/artifact-x-20070203.028902-4.pom
+----+
- [[1]] Repository Purge By Days Older
+ [[1]] Repository Purge By Number of Days Older
Using this criteria for the purge, Archiva will check how old an artifact is
and if it is older than the set value in the
repository purge by days older field, then the artifact will be deleted
respecting the retention count of course.
@@ -169,6 +169,18 @@
in the repository. The oldest snapshots will be deleted maintaining only a
number of snapshots equivalent to the set
retention count (regardless of how old or new the artifact is).
+** Deleting Released Snapshots
+
+ You can also configure Archiva to clean up snapshot artifacts that have
already been released. This can be done by ticking
+ the Delete Released Snapshots checkbox in the Repository Configuration form.
+
+ Once this feature is enabled, if Archiva encounters a snapshot artifact
during repository scanning, it would check <<all>> the
+ repositories configured for a released version of that snapshot. If it finds
one, then it would delete the entire
+ snapshot version directory.
+
+ It should be noted that this feature is entirely separate from the
repository purge by number of days older and by
+ retention count.
+
* Scanning a Database
Another scanning process also occurs in Archiva, the database scanning. Same
as with repository scanning,
