erase/unpublish from a file based resolver
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Key: IVY-358
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-358
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 1.4, 1.4.1
Environment: Linux / Any
Reporter: Eric Crahen
Priority: Minor
I have a use case in which I set up a resolver chain that goes like this :
<filebased-resolver>
<url-resolver>
In order to make local changes to packages that I would otherwise
resolve with the url resolver, I check out the source, and publish
the override to my filebased resolver. This enables me to "override"
locally certain packages for development.
Now at some point those local changes are no longer needed, either
I decide I don't need them, someone else has merged the changes
up into the release that can be obtained from the url-resolver, whatever.
At this point, I no longer need the local "override" in my filebased-resolver.
What I would like to do is unpublish the artifact there. I don't want to go
in by hand, and remove things from my cache or delete things manually
from the file based resolver.
One solution would be something like in order to "unpublish" is would
publish to a different resolver
<unpublish-filebased-resolver>
This resolver might be just like the filebased-resolve, except that it does the
opposite. Instead of copying a local artifact to the resolver location, it
"unpublishes"
by locating the artifact in the filebased resolver and removes it. The verb
publish
means to delete the artifact with this resolver.
What this lets me do is manage my overrides (which is really just artifacts)
using ivy and not manually file hunting.
I can write ant tasks that would just publish to the erasing/unpublish resolver
in order to remove a local override.
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