We should probably investigate whether Nexus's REST APIs would be of any use here; seemingly they would make it much more difficult to inadvertently delete the wrong file(s).
Matt On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 October 2013 02:21, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > > > On Oct 13, 2013, at 4:31 PM, sebb wrote: > > > >> Recently, I found that the Maven project RMs don't bother removing > these. > >> So the files are released to Maven Central with the rest. > >> I assume that the Maven Central administrators don't care about the > >> extra space needed. > >> > >> Now ASF source releases must be provided via the ASF mirror system. > >> There does not seem to be any ruling on whether having additional > >> copies of the source release elsehere is allowed or not. > >> > >> I tried asking on Infra whether source releases should only be > >> published to the ASF mirror system, but got no answer. > >> Perhaps someone else would like to try? > >> > >> It would obviously be a lot easier if the Nexus directory did not have > >> to be purged of these files, as this has to be carefully co-ordinated > >> with copying the files for the ASF mirror SVN repo. > > > > Whether they have to be removed or not as a user I find them being > published to Maven central to be annoying since they are pretty much > useless as Maven artifacts. > > Indeed. > > The issue here is that deleting files from a closed staging area is > prone to errors as the Nexus GUI is quite fiddly (and the confirmation > pop-up does not show the name of the file being deleted). > > > > >> > >>> I gave up trying to remove the absurd .asc.sha1 and > >>> .asc.md5 files for JCI, there was too many of them (12 files per > >>> artifact, 6 artifacts). > >> > >> That could be automated (I started working on a tool to do this, but > >> other things intervened). > >> It's a long-standing Maven bug. The files can be left, but it makes > >> checking the directory tedious. > > > > See http://wiki.apache.org/logging/Log4j2ReleaseGuide step 11c. I'm > not sure why rm *.asc.md5 is a problem. Even if they are in separate > directories the find command works pretty well. > > Find and rm do not work on Nexus, which is one place where the > spurious files are annoying. > Also it's easy to delete the wrong file in Nexus (so this should be > done before closing the staging area - if it is done at all) > > > Ralph > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
