[fedora-java] Ivy packaging for EPEL7

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

Hi Cristopher,

sorry for delay, but I was on vacation.

On 11/16/2015 05:26 PM, Christopher wrote:
> What's the best way to deal with resolving ivy dependencies in EPEL7? I'm
> trying to package zookeeper for EPEL7, and am running into problems.
> 
> I see there's ivy-local for F21 and later, which comes with xmvn 2, but it
> looks like EL7/EPEL7 is mostly a F19-era package set.
> 
> Are there any plans to bump xmvn to 2 for EPEL7, or to provide ivy-local
> another way? Or is there another option? I'm really more familiar with
> maven builds than ivy, so this is somewhat of a struggle.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.

XMvn/Ivy integration (ivy-local et al.) was added quite recently and
it's not supported in RHEL7/EPEL7.

Probably the easiest solution is not using Ivy to resolve build
dependencies. You would need to use build-jar-repository to create
"lib/" directory with all necessary dependencies and patch build.xml not
to use Ivy, but JAR symlinks from "lib/". Let me know if you have any
trouble with doing that and I'll try to help.

Another (probably better long-term) solution would be packaging latest
XMvn/javapackages for EPEL7. This could help porting other packages from
current Fedora to EPEL7, if not now then in future. Unfortunately I
don't have time to do that myself, but anyone is free to do that.

-- 
Mikolaj Izdebski
Software Engineer, Red Hat
IRC: mizdebsk