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Ken Williams
Ken Williams

Reputation: 23985

Archive artifact in Nexus

Our internal Nexus repository has an artifact that we wish we never published, but unfortunately we did. And various environments installed it.

I'd like to delete it from the repository so that nobody downloads the erroneous release again, but for the people who already downloaded & installed that artifact, it seems a bit deceptive to pretend the release never happened. Is there a way to "archive" or "disable" an artifact so that it still is preserved somewhere for analysis or archeological purposes, but won't be installed by someone pulling artifacts for installation?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1161

Answers (1)

Joseph Stephens
Joseph Stephens

Reputation: 81

There isn't a feature in NXRM for disabling access to individual artifacts. This is a bit hacky but you could achieve it by

  1. Creating a new hosted repository (either raw format or the same format that you are currently using)
  2. Marking that repository as "offline" enter image description here
  3. Moving the artifact to the archived repository.

Step 3 is the problematic part: If you are an NXRM PRO user on a recent version there are REST calls you can use for moving components. See here for more details https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/staging#Staging-RESTEndpoints

If you are an OSS user you will likely have to republish the same artifact to the archive repository and then delete it from the original repository.

(Note the above assumes you are using NXRM3 - if you are using NXRM2 take a look at https://blog.sonatype.com/2010/04/nexus-tip-moving-artifacts-between-nexus-repositories/)

Upvotes: 1

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