Possibility to update or invalidate artifact?

[Kasper Sørensen <ka...@eobjects.dk>]

Hi everyone,

I am in the sad situation that something went wrong with the artifacts
that have been uploaded/synchronized with the central maven repo...
The jars that I have uploaded where empty after running "mvn jar:jar
deploy:deploy". Apparently I should have used "mvn install
deploy:deploy", but that's another story).

I was wondering if it was possible to either invalidate/remove an
artifact from the repo or if it's possible to overwrite an existing
artifact somehow? On the "Guide to uploading artifacts to the Central
Repository" it says that "nothing is deleted or changed in the Central
Repository after it is synced", so I'm guessing it wont help to just
do a new deployment on my sync'ed repository? I can increment the
version of my artifact but that would be bad for the project roadmap
and it would also be quite confusing to users I think.

Best regards,
Kasper Sørensen
representing the MetaModel and DataCleaner projects at eobjects.org

RE: Possibility to update or invalidate artifact?

["Brian E. Fox" <br...@reply.infinity.nu>]

Actually you just need mvn deploy. You might want to read up on the maven lifecycle: www.sonatype.com/book/

-----Original Message-----
From: Kasper Sørensen [mailto:kasper@eobjects.dk] 
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:16 PM
To: repo-maintainers@maven.apache.org
Subject: Possibility to update or invalidate artifact?

Hi everyone,

I am in the sad situation that something went wrong with the artifacts
that have been uploaded/synchronized with the central maven repo...
The jars that I have uploaded where empty after running "mvn jar:jar
deploy:deploy". Apparently I should have used "mvn install
deploy:deploy", but that's another story).

I was wondering if it was possible to either invalidate/remove an
artifact from the repo or if it's possible to overwrite an existing
artifact somehow? On the "Guide to uploading artifacts to the Central
Repository" it says that "nothing is deleted or changed in the Central
Repository after it is synced", so I'm guessing it wont help to just
do a new deployment on my sync'ed repository? I can increment the
version of my artifact but that would be bad for the project roadmap
and it would also be quite confusing to users I think.

Best regards,
Kasper Sørensen
representing the MetaModel and DataCleaner projects at eobjects.org

Re: Possibility to update or invalidate artifact?

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

On 15/12/2008, at 10:34 AM, Brett Porter wrote:

> We can delete it in such a case, but we would highly recommend you  
> release a new version, not overwrite the existing one, to avoid any  
> future confusion.

I should clarify.

It's been pointed out to me that empty JARs is probably not serious  
enough to make an exception to the rules. While I'm hesitant to leave  
"junk" in the repository, it should be clear that replacing it is not  
an option because of the confusion that would occur if someone picks  
up the empty JARs from an older mirror.

You should definitely release under a new version. We won't remove  
anything for now, and I think you'd need to make a very strong case  
for it for it to happen.

As Brian pointed out, mvn deploy is the right way to go, and you might  
consider using the release and stage plugins to help manage the  
process and vet the artifacts before they end up in your synced  
repository as well.

HTH,
Brett

--
Brett Porter
brett@apache.org
http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/

Re: Possibility to update or invalidate artifact?

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

We can delete it in such a case, but we would highly recommend you  
release a new version, not overwrite the existing one, to avoid any  
future confusion.

- Brett

On 15/12/2008, at 9:15 AM, Kasper Sørensen wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am in the sad situation that something went wrong with the artifacts
> that have been uploaded/synchronized with the central maven repo...
> The jars that I have uploaded where empty after running "mvn jar:jar
> deploy:deploy". Apparently I should have used "mvn install
> deploy:deploy", but that's another story).
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to either invalidate/remove an
> artifact from the repo or if it's possible to overwrite an existing
> artifact somehow? On the "Guide to uploading artifacts to the Central
> Repository" it says that "nothing is deleted or changed in the Central
> Repository after it is synced", so I'm guessing it wont help to just
> do a new deployment on my sync'ed repository? I can increment the
> version of my artifact but that would be bad for the project roadmap
> and it would also be quite confusing to users I think.
>
> Best regards,
> Kasper Sørensen
> representing the MetaModel and DataCleaner projects at eobjects.org

--
Brett Porter
brett@apache.org
http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/