Merging repositories

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>]

I find that I need to "merge" repositories quite often.  Someone
delivers a bunch of artifacts in Maven repo format, and I want to copy
them into an existing repository, updating the metadata as needed, and
*not* overwriting any duplicates that are already in my repo.
(Released artifacts shouldn't change.)

Would this be a good feature for Archiva?

Or would it just be better to write a script that checks to see if the
file is already present before copying, and let Archiva fix the
metadata later when it scans/updates?

-- 
Wendy

Re: Merging repositories

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>]

I opened http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-980 (Ability to merge
repositories) for this.

Take a look and vote/comment if you have additional thoughts... and of
course, patches welcome. :)

-- 
Wendy

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Dan Tran <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for that,
>
> currently i deploy my staging to Archiva and use stage plugin to do
> the merge. It would be
> wonderful to see Archiva do this task in one click :-)

RE: Merging repositories

[EJ Ciramella <ec...@upromise.com>]

I agree - we used to have this singular repository we'd call "bertha" it
was a catch all - so some snapshots are in there.

I tried splitting some things out and then merging it with a new (more
appropriately named) "internal" repository (with internal-snapshot and
third-party repositories) and had little luck.




-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Tran [mailto:dantran@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:22 PM
To: users@archiva.apache.org
Subject: Re: Merging repositories

+1 for that,

currently i deploy my staging to Archiva and use stage plugin to do the
merge. It would be wonderful to see Archiva do this task in one click
:-)

-D

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find that I need to "merge" repositories quite often.  Someone 
> delivers a bunch of artifacts in Maven repo format, and I want to copy

> them into an existing repository, updating the metadata as needed, and
> *not* overwriting any duplicates that are already in my repo.
> (Released artifacts shouldn't change.)
>
> Would this be a good feature for Archiva?
>
> Or would it just be better to write a script that checks to see if the

> file is already present before copying, and let Archiva fix the 
> metadata later when it scans/updates?
>
> --
> Wendy
>

Re: Merging repositories

[Dan Tran <da...@gmail.com>]

+1 for that,

currently i deploy my staging to Archiva and use stage plugin to do
the merge. It would be
wonderful to see Archiva do this task in one click :-)

-D

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find that I need to "merge" repositories quite often.  Someone
> delivers a bunch of artifacts in Maven repo format, and I want to copy
> them into an existing repository, updating the metadata as needed, and
> *not* overwriting any duplicates that are already in my repo.
> (Released artifacts shouldn't change.)
>
> Would this be a good feature for Archiva?
>
> Or would it just be better to write a script that checks to see if the
> file is already present before copying, and let Archiva fix the
> metadata later when it scans/updates?
>
> --
> Wendy
>