Please do file a JIRA and reply back with the number. I'll see about implementing a plugin to help with this issue, but no guarantees. ;-)
Wayne On 3/19/08, aldana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes, we got a corporate repository with archvia, which cashes dependencies, > so it is not such a pain as waiting very long time when deleting > .m2/repository without having a repository proxy. > > never the less i think that all these cleanup-scripts hanging around (cron > or similar) are just as always a workaround which do not solve the source of > the problem. > me, at least as a user would like to have solved this memory-size problem > (currently 2GB sized repository is growing larger and larger just because of > snapshots) by maven2 itself. > > i think i will go to open a jira issue for that, so setting the number of > snapshots kept in local repository can be configured. > > > Wayne Fay wrote: > > > > This is not currently configurable. Most people have a corporate > > repository where they download their artifacts from, and so simply > > deleting ~/.m2 is less painful than if you are just downloading direct > > from the Internet. > > > > I know people have discussed scripts to clear out their repo (eg find > > latest snapshot and delete the rest) on this list but I don't have a > > link to Nabble for one of them. If you search, you can probably find > > one or more of them. But they may not work on your platform (eg script > > is bash or korn and you're on Windows). > > > > Wayne > > > > On 3/19/08, aldana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> hi, > >> > >> is it possible to limit the size of local repository? especially keeping > >> all > >> snapshots of a version in my view often is not neccessary. so a setting, > >> where the maximum number of snapshots can be set (others would then be > >> discarded) would be nice. > >> > >> currently we sometimes get very annoying problems that roaming-win xp > >> profiles get crashed because maven local repository takes too much space. > >> > >> the workaround to regularly delete local repository does not seem a good > >> solution to me.... > >> > >> do others face similar problems? > >> > >> > >> ----- > >> manuel aldana > >> aldana((at))gmx.de > >> homepage: http://www.aldana-online.de > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://www.nabble.com/limit-size-of-local-repository%2C-limit-number-of-snapshots-tp16147475s177p16147475.html > >> Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > ----- > manuel aldana > aldana((at))gmx.de > homepage: http://www.aldana-online.de > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/limit-size-of-local-repository%2C-limit-number-of-snapshots-tp16147475s177p16163260.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
