Ok thanks Olivier, I'll look into Apache Archiva. It sounds ancient ;) Delany
On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 08:37, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > >
