make jenkins NOT download plugins again and again and again..

[KlavsKlavsen]

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[jchristi]

@KlavsKlavsen are you specifying a plugin version? Pinning a version should cause it to only download once. With your patch though, it will make updating a plugin not work.

[KlavsKlavsen]

You're right. I didn't think about that. is this supposed to support "latest" feature somehow? or is it just: "whatveer is available when we installed" or "specific version" ?
If that's the case - perhaps the plugin name should be $pluginname-$versionrequested.xpi ?
then creates would work - and we could make sure to clean up disabled plugins, by setting force and purge to true on the folder (then only the files created in the run will stay there)

[jchristi]

I always use exact plugin versions, so I can't speak definitively on the other cases. What was your use case where you were seeing multiple downloads?

[KlavsKlavsen]

I had lots of plugins where I didn't want any specific version.. just the latest - and then it kept re-downloading them.

[jchristi]

What exact version of the codebase are you running?

[KlavsKlavsen]

the codebase? you mean puppet-jenkins module? latest from github.

[jchristi]

I use a heavily modded version myself, so I'll have to setup a test environment with the usptream code to see if I can reproduce. Not sure when I'll be able to get around to that though.

[rtyler]

I don't think we're going to be able to reasonable solve this for the Edgar (1.0.0) release coming up in a few days, but this will be handled more appropriately by the code to fix #12.

I think the best case scenario for the near term is just to document the behavior