[jira] [Created] (MIME4J-231) Build is nondeterministic

["Andreas Veithen (JIRA)" <mi...@james.apache.org>]

Andreas Veithen created MIME4J-231:
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             Summary: Build is nondeterministic
                 Key: MIME4J-231
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MIME4J-231
             Project: James Mime4j
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: parser (core)
         Environment: Solaris (Jenkins @ ASF), Ubuntu (Jenkins @ ASF), Mac OS X
            Reporter: Andreas Veithen


The MIME4J build from the current trunk (r1523944 at the time of writing, but the problem exists since r1457430) is nondeterministic. Sometimes the apache-mime4j-core artifact produced by the build is an OSGi bundle (as expected), sometimes it is a plain JAR. This has been observed with the apache-mime4j-core artifact because this library is used by Apache Axiom, but the issue probably also affects other artifacts.

Builds that produce artifacts without OSGi manifests have the following output:

[INFO] --- maven-bundle-plugin:2.3.7:bundle (default-bundle) @ apache-mime4j-core ---
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (jar) @ apache-mime4j-core ---
[INFO] Building jar: /Users/veithen/dev/maven/mime4j/core/target/apache-mime4j-core-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] 

On the other hand, for successful builds, the output is different:

[INFO] --- maven-bundle-plugin:2.3.7:bundle (default-bundle) @ apache-mime4j-core ---
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (jar) @ apache-mime4j-core ---
[INFO] 

Normally, there is an up-to-date check that should cause the maven-jar-plugin to skip the execution of the jar goal because maven-bundle-plugin already generated the JAR. It looks like for some unknown reason that up-to-date check is not deterministic, and sometimes maven-jar-plugin replaces the JAR generated by maven-bundle-plugin. In that case maven-jar-plugin generates its own MANIFEST.MF instead of using the manifest generated by maven-bundle-plugin.

That being said, since the packaging of the project is "bundle", there actually shouldn't be any execution of the jar goal at all. It turns out that the execution is configured by the org.apache.james:james-project parent POM. That configuration was added between 1.8.1 and 1.8.2. In the MIME4J subproject, that version was switched in r1457430 (Sun Mar 17 12:08:05 2013), and this is indeed when the problems started.

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