[Fedora-packaging] Pre-review Gudelines

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> [2009-05-08 18:45]:
>> So from the discussion we had on IRC, I added a note that maven2 itself
>> will need to bootstrap itself with binaries from its tarball.  But I
>> looked on the maven2 website and saw that they suggest bootstrapping
>> with ant and then rebuilding with the newly built maven2:
>>
>> http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-building-m2.html
>>
>> Is there some reason that those instructions don't work now?
>>
> We could use the ant build, but it offers no real advantage. The ant build 
> still downloads the jars that we package in the tarball. There is no way
> around those dependencies. While using ant may knock off a
> very small subset of jars from the bootstrap tarball, it will vastly
> increase maintenance as we would have to set it up so that each version
> of each dependency is acquired from a local source.
> 
Actually, it shouldn't.  The koji buildroot shouldn't have network
access so it will just fail.

What's in the jars that are being used to bootstrap?  It sounds as
though it's not just maven itself?

-Toshio

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