Thanks a lot it's a lot clearer ! Cheers
Arnaud On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Maria Odea Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Arnaud, > > You can only activate one of them (if the # of days old is > 0, then purge > by # of days old; otherwise, purge by retention count). However, the purge > by # of days old would always respect the value that is set in the > retention > count. So the answer to your question is no.. > > In the purge by # of days old, the number of actual artifacts in the > version > directory would always be checked first against the retention count before > checking if the artifact's age falls within the # of days old set. So if > the > retention count is 2, the # of days old is 20 and you have 4 artifacts > that > are all more than 20 days old, the latest 2 will still be retained because > you have a retention count of 2. This means that you can only have less > snapshots than the retention count if and only if the number of actual > artifacts before the purge is less than the retention count. > > Hope that's clearer :-) > I'll update the purge section in the docs and try to make it more reader > friendly. I also got a little confused after reading it (and i was the one > who wrote it hehe). Also, I think I've missed putting the purge activation > part in the docs. > > -Deng > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Arnaud HERITIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I read the documentation about repository purge ( > > http://maven.apache.org/archiva/docs/1.0.1/adminguide/repositories.html) > > but > > I have always a doubt. If I activate both rules to purge the repository > > (days older and retention count), archiva will apply both of them thus I > > can > > for example have less snapshots than the retention count if there's no > > enough of them which have the minimal days older ? > > Is that right ? > > > > .......................................................... > > Arnaud HERITIER > > .......................................................... > > OCTO Technology - aheritier AT octo DOT com > > www.octo.com | blog.octo.com > > .......................................................... > > ASF - aheritier AT apache DOT org > > www.apache.org | maven.apache.org > > ........................................................... > > > -- .......................................................... Arnaud HERITIER .......................................................... OCTO Technology - aheritier AT octo DOT com www.octo.com | blog.octo.com .......................................................... ASF - aheritier AT apache DOT org www.apache.org | maven.apache.org ...........................................................
