I'm not sure it is even possible to archive artifacts in a build promotion action. The Promotion plugin probably just collects all actions into the list of promotion actions regardless if they make any sense or have been tested to work in the promotion context. The promotion does not have its own artifacts page where the artifacts would be available.
The promotion is really kind of a hidden job that runs using the same workspace as it's parent job. At the time the promotion runs, the parent job workspace might not contain the files you expect because a new build of the parent job may have checked out/built newer files. Or the workspace may even have been deleted! It is best practice not to look at the files in the workspace in the promotion. It might even be safest to merely trigger another job to any actions that requires a workspace and files. If I understand correctly, you are trying to build something, then maybe run some tests on it and if the tests pass, promote the build and only then archive the artifacts, so you do not waste disk space saving bad builds. I myself archive the build artifacts when the build is done, then test the builds and if the tests pass, I promote the build. Essentially, I archive all builds, but I just have enough disk space not to care about the builds that failed during tests. -- Sami Mauro Molinari <mauro...@tiscali.it> kirjoitti 27.7.2012 kello 16.26: > Hello, > I'm quite new to Jenkins and I need some help with archiving artifacts. > I have my project and I can build it correctly. > Then, in the project configuration I set: > > Promote builds when... > Only when manually approved > Actions: > 1) archive the artifacts; files to archive: master/build/distributions/* > 2) keep build forever > > The first problem I see is that I can't promote a build which was done before > I enabled the "Promote builds when..." check box: there's no "Promotion > status" link for it. Anyway, that link appears for builds made after the > option was enabled, but even if the promotion seems to go successfully, I > can't understand where the archived artifacts are put and/or how I may be > able to access them. > > In fact, I don't see any new link in the build page, nor in the project page. > I just see that my promoted build is marked to be kept forever. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > Mauro.
