Hi I deploy artifacts to a simple file server. Works perfectly. But there's no lifecycle management. So when I want to delete artifacts there is no such goal in the deploy-maven-plugin.
If I try to delete files haphazardly, like `find . -name 8.4.0 -delete` this will remove the pom and jar files but leave the maven-metadata.xml unchanged. There is a goal dependency:purge-local-repository but as the name suggests this operates on the local maven repository. If I set `-Dmaven.repo.local` then maven will try to populate this repository with its own artifacts and for extensions and plugins. This approach also relies on having the project available to get all artifact coordinates to perform the purge (and hopefully the project still has every subproject for which there is a deployed artifact) OR i must use a script to figure out the coordinates by feeding in what the find command provided, which is not full-proof, since there may be unrelated artifacts with version 8.4.0. How do I remove artifacts from a maven repository with messing up the metadata? Kind regards, Delany
