Hey guys, we are working with nexus repository 3.74.0 and having several nuget v3 feeds. We enabled the cleanup policies for some test repositories and want to delete assets which are older than 10 days. We hosting chocolatey packages on these feeds and when chocolatey is downloading a asset, its …

It sounds like you may have a misconfigured repository, there should only be a single index.json in a Nuget proxy repository in Nexus. With a NuGet v3 proxy repository the URL used should be to the index.json (e.g. for the NuGet gallery it would be https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json ). Generally …

Hi Matthew, thanks for your reply. Sorry I was not specified enough… We using nuget (hosted) repositories not proxy. The files under /v3/registration/(assets)/index.json will be created when a chocolatey agent is downloading the asset. I dunno if there is a difference between proxy and hosted for…

This still sounds like some sort of misconfiguration, I haven’t looked at NuGet in some time but I believe the only index.json should be at the root of the repository and managed by Nexus. If you take a look at the previous link for the contents this is a service reference file which defines pattern…

Hi Matthew, no im sorry, a raw repository is not supported from chocolatey. I dunno see a misconfiguration here. Again… when you deleting from the web gui, its working… When the cleanup policy is used, its not working. Maybe my wording is the problem :smiley: Microsoft decscribes that as the “regis…

Hi Alexander, Thanks for the video - I hadn’t interacted with the metadata shown here before. After checking the contents it does appear that this metadata ought to be removed when there are no packages with that particular packageId remaining. If you wouldn’t mind reporting it as a bug: Issues · …

Nexus 3.74.0 Nuget Feed Cleanup Polices does not cleanup V3 index

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pLeX (Alexander Pelz) November 27, 2024, 10:08am 7

Thanks Matthew,

I opened and issue: Nexus 3.74.0 Nuget (hosted) Feed Cleanup Policies does not cleanup V3 registration page · Issue #530 · sonatype/nexus-public

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Nexus 3.74.0 Nuget Feed Cleanup Polices does not cleanup V3 index

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