After you reviewed https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/pre-scm-buildstep for the Pre-SCM Build Step?
You may also want to consider the advice in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10123914/how-to-add-some-prebuild-steps-to-jenkins and see if there is a way to add that step to the build script itself, rather than making it part of the Jenkins job definition. Mark Waite On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:28 AM Björn Stabel <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still having this problem. Is anyone aware of a solution, like a > pre-wipe action plugin? > > On 10/22/2015 12:49 PM, Björn Stabel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a job that constructs a Vagrant environment in the workspace > > directory. > > To that Vagrant environment belongs a VirtualBox VM, stored elsewhere. > > Vagrant keeps track of which Vagrant environment belongs to which > > VirtualBox VM through a directory named ".vagrant" in the workspace > > directory. > > > > The problem is this: > > If a user wipes the workspace of that job, the .vagrant directory is > > gone, but the VirtualBox VM still exists. > > The next time the job is run, Vagrant cannot find the existing VM, so > > a new VM is created, taking up extra disk space. > > > > Preparing the VM takes some time and involves creating a snapshot on > > which all future runs can base, so destroying the VM in a post-build > > step would significantly increase build times. > > > > Is there a way I could tell Jenkins to destroy the VM (by running > > "vagrant destroy -f", for example) before wiping the workspace? > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/565449C7.1000400%40data-experts.de > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtF-W98KPv9%2Bh-_JFsZ8Rjo-CUE8Up1AchvDSZ8LHSZT4Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
