Thanks Brett. I finally decided not to mix up Archiva setup with Continuum's. As you suggested, I will keep purging the stuff in both manually. I cannot wait to see a better support for this in Maven.
brettporter wrote: > > > > On 17/12/2008, at 12:21 AM, teacup wrote: > >> Note that the user 'specialuser' owns Tomcat, Archiva, and Continuum >> installations. Anyway, so my problem is that Archiva downloads and >> maintains same artifacts under its own repos (under Tomcat - see >> above) that >> Continuum maintains under its default local repository (see above) - >> and >> this means unnecessary duplication to me. I mean all those huge >> artifact >> jars are present in two places on my server. > > This would be likely to cause conflicts for the Maven process as it > executes, and the format of the local and remote repositories are > different. > > While it's not ideal, you are best to utilise the purge features of > both Continuum and Archiva to keep the local and snapshot repos trim > so that duplication is at a minimum. > > Hopefully future versions of Maven will better support this within the > local repository (I have a proposal prepared for this already). > > Cheers, > Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > [email protected] > http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Managed-repositories-and-Maven-local-repository-tp21032964p21060851.html Sent from the archiva-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
