Is there a Jenkins built-in way to delete old archived artifacts?
John Vacz
archived artifacts of an ever-living job which keeps all build histories
of last years.
I want to delete the old artifacts but keep all the build histories and
statistics.
I did not find how to configure this in "Archive artifacts" section, and
the "delete old builds" option is not what I want, because it deletes
all build histories and statistics altogether. I just want to get rid of
those old archived artifacts.
I know this can be done very easily by a shell or ant script, but I
consider those scripts as somehow dangerous, because they have no
knowledge of Jenkins job boundary, may delete other jobs or important
Jenkins config files by accident.
I prefer this to be done by Jenkins archive plugin itself (or is this a
core functionality?) , am I overseeing the configuration, or this
feature is not supported now?
If Jenkins has no built-in solution for these, are there any safer way
(than naked scripts) to do so?
Any suggestions iould be greatly appreciated.
regards
-- vf
Kamal Ahmed
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ArtifactDeployer+Plugin
plus, as it mentions
An external system (not Jenkins) is responsible for deleting the archived artifacts.
i know it does not help much as per your wish, but i will do some more digging , Maybe write a simple plugin ?
-K
Bap
Check the box next to "Discard Old Builds"
Underneath the two text boxes, and on the right is a button labelled
"Advanced"
Click the button - the two new text boxes are what you are looking for.
Bap.
John Vacz
Thanks Bap! That looks like exactly what Im looking for. For whatsoever
reason I did see that before.
greetings
-- vf
John Vacz
Maybe
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ArtifactDeployer+Plugin
plus, as it mentions
An external system (not Jenkins) is responsible for deleting the archived artifacts.
i know it does not help much as per your wish, but i will do some more digging , Maybe write a simple plugin ?
-K