Hi I cannot see any tools doing that as-is, except by using a repository manager instead of a plain HTTP server? I remember vaguely Apache Archiva had some code doing such a cleanup (rebuilding metadata and indexes) so maybe you can reuse this code?
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 at 20:34, Delany <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
