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On 29-03-2011 06:47, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote: |
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> I'd like to know how the dependencies will be handled by maven based |
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> ebuilds. Can you let me know the difference between dependencies |
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> specified in Maven's POM file, and ebuild's dependencies? Are both |
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> should be same? Since, Maven's POM contains the unique artifacts IDs |
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> (with the combination of groupId, artifactId, version) which points to |
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> a _binary_ jar, how should the developers who write _ebuilds_ specify |
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> it? I got to know that dependencies are also ebuilds under gentoo i.e. |
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> no binaries. |
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POM dependencies can be too restrictive sometimes, like depending on a |
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specific version. We should be depending on any version (or sometimes |
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with >=,<=) as long as the package compiles and runs fine with it. |
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> I've been going through the Ralph's (nick: sera ) suggested eclass |
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> [1]. It turned out to be very useful. (sera, I got your name from [1], |
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> hope it's correct! :) ). Because maven offline building is the biggest |
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> issue Gentoo is currently facing, As Petteri suggested, I've been |
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> going through to see how other distributions handle this. I see that |
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> both in sera's eclass and in Debian's MavenRepoSpec [2], that they |
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> specify a variable which points to a maven local-repository location. |
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> Ralph's eclass specified MAVEN_REPO_DIR="${T}/maven-repo/" while |
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> Debian has REPO=/usr/share/maven-repo. Since the file-system will be |
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> read-only for ebuilds, and ebuilds should be built offline, what's the |
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> purpose of this? |
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We then still need to add symlinks to jars during build time in there |
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which is an "access violation" in sand box. |
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- -- |
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Sincerely, |
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Serkan KABA |
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Gentoo Developer |
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