[JIRA] (OVIRT-751) Persistent maven caches on the mock slaves

[Anton Marchukov (oVirt JIRA)]

Anton Marchukov created OVIRT-751:
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             Summary: Persistent maven caches on the mock slaves
                 Key: OVIRT-751
                 URL: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-751
             Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Anton Marchukov
            Assignee: infra


I think we need to design a way to retain maven caches on the mocked jenkins slaves. Currently it is stored inside the mock and thus maven downloads packages from artifactory server each time. 

However there is really no reason for that. Maven artifacts are designed to be immutable so once artifact is in the repo there is no trivial way to change it without creating a new version. In fact it should never be needed and the correct solution for that is to always create a new version.

SNAPSHOOT artifacts are in fact timestamped and each one have different file name. It is just not visible since maven automatically takes the latest one. But it is not related to caching as the new snapshoot will be a new artifact still.

So based on that point there is no reason to purge maven cache each time, but there are reasons why not to purge. Not purging them will reduce the build times of all java jobs and also reduce the network traffic we have. 



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