Building a package that uses Maven and depends on other libraries

[Mary Ellen Foster]

I've embarked on a quest to package JabRef for Fedora
(http://jabref.sourceforge.net/). It has an annoying number of
dependencies, but the one I'm stuck on right now is "spin"
(http://spin.sourceforge.net/). This in turn depends on cglib
(http://cglib.sourceforge.net), which is easy to package and I've got
a version already at
    http://mef.fedorapeople.org/cglib/
(haven't put it up for review yet because I want to try to get
everything complete).

The problem now is: spin is built with maven, about which I know just
about nothing. I've managed to install the required maven plugins
(compiler, assembler, etc), but how do I point maven at my cglib jar
file in /usr/share/java? The relevant part of the pom.xml file looks
like this:
    <dependency>
      <groupId>cglib</groupId>
      <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
      <version>2.1_3</version>
      <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
I've tried making the obvious edits -- changing cglib-nodep to cglib
and version to 2.2 to agree with the cglib RPM -- but mv-jpp still
persists in not finding it when I try to build. What's the magic
trick? Is it documented in the wiki anywhere that I've missed?

Thanks for any help,

MEF

-- 
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2008/8/14 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster(a)gmail.com&gt;:
This in turn depends on cglib
>  (http://cglib.sourceforge.net), which is easy to package and I've
> got
>  a version already at
>     http://mef.fedorapeople.org/cglib/
>  (haven't put it up for review yet because I want to try to get
>  everything complete). 
Oops, make that URL http://mef.fedorapeople.org/packages/cglib/ ...
sorry about that.

MEF

-- 
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2008/8/14 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  2008/8/14 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  This in turn depends on cglib
> > (http://cglib.sourceforge.net), which is easy to package and I've got
> > a version already at
> >    http://mef.fedorapeople.org/cglib/
> > (haven't put it up for review yet because I want to try to get
> > everything complete).
>
>  Oops, make that URL http://mef.fedorapeople.org/packages/cglib/ ...
>  sorry about that. 
(Talking to myself ...) Hmm, looks like cglib (an older version) is in
jpackage already:
   
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/free/repodata/repoview/cgl...
What's the protocol for importing jpackage things into fedora that
aren't already in?

MEF

-- 
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

[Andrew Overholt]

* Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster(a)gmail.com&gt; [2008-08-14 08:21]:
>  What's the protocol for importing jpackage things into fedora
> that
>  aren't already in? 
It has to go through a review just like any other package.

Andrew

[Deepak Bhole]

* Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster(a)gmail.com&gt; [2008-08-14 08:13]:
>  I've embarked on a quest to package JabRef for Fedora
>  (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/). It has an annoying number of
>  dependencies, but the one I'm stuck on right now is "spin"
>  (http://spin.sourceforge.net/). This in turn depends on cglib
>  (http://cglib.sourceforge.net), which is easy to package and I've got
>  a version already at
>      http://mef.fedorapeople.org/cglib/
>  (haven't put it up for review yet because I want to try to get
>  everything complete).
>  
>  The problem now is: spin is built with maven, about which I know just
>  about nothing. I've managed to install the required maven plugins
>  (compiler, assembler, etc), but how do I point maven at my cglib jar
>  file in /usr/share/java? The relevant part of the pom.xml file looks
>  like this:
>      <dependency>
>        <groupId>cglib</groupId>
>        <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
>        <version>2.1_3</version>
>        <optional>true</optional>
>      </dependency>
>  I've tried making the obvious edits -- changing cglib-nodep to cglib
>  and version to 2.2 to agree with the cglib RPM -- but mv-jpp still
>  persists in not finding it when I try to build. What's the magic
>  trick? Is it documented in the wiki anywhere that I've missed?
>  
Ideally, the cglib rpm needs to install a depmap fragment in this case.
That consists of using the add_to_maven_depmap and update_maven_depmap
macros. Their usage is specified here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Java/JPPMavenReadme#Packages_adding_their_o...

Alternatively, you can hack around updating cglib by specifying a custom
depmap when building JabRef. Info on that is on the page above as well.

Cheers,
Deepak
 
>  Thanks for any help,
>  
>  MEF
>  
>  -- 
>  Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
>  Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
>  and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
>  
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