[fedora-java] Q: How to locally maven-install a fedora maven-based package?

[Mat Booth]

On 8 April 2015 at 10:04, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/04/15 10:17, Michal Srb wrote:
>
>> Hi Alec,
>>
>
> Hi! Thanks for taking time to reply.
>
>  On 04/08/2015 09:22 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>
>
>  All this metadata (groupId, artifactId, etc.) is available in the
>>> /usr/share/maven-metadata/app.xml file. So, my question: is there any
>>> tool which parses app.xml and installs the jar file to the local maven
>>> repository?
>>>
>>> Or have I just got it wrong, and there is another much more elegant
>>> way to make system jar files available to the local maven?
>>>
>>>
>> You can call "xmvn" instead of "mvn" and it will first try to use system
>> jars.
>>
>
> I take this answer as "No, there is no such tool" (?)
>

To get this tool, you can:

# yum install xmvn



>
>  Only artifacts not available on your system will be downloaded
>> from Maven Central. It's important to note that "xmvn" ignores artifact
>> versions. It will first try to find exact version, but if it's not
>> available, it will look for any other version of given artifact.
>>
>
> Which IMHO makes perfect sense when working downstream (i. e., packaging)
> but isn't really sane while doing upstream developing which requires exact
> version matching.
>
>  As you can see, development against system jars can be a bit
>> problematic. That's because "system" jars are not really meant to be
>> used for development (IMO). We usually package jars into RPMs, because
>> some Java application needs them at runtime/compile time.
>>
>
> Still, I have some jars which are available in fedora packages but not in
> maven central. Which means that the reasonable way is to install
> (fedora-wise) the package and then maven-install the packaged jar into the
> maven repository to make them available as dependencies. Or?
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> --alec
> --
> java-devel mailing list
> java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
>



-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/java-devel/attachments/20150408/ca38c126/attachment.html>