Using Jars located on System without using a repository

[Alistair Bush <al...@gmail.com>]

Hi

I am currently investigating strategies of how to bring maven support to the 
package management system used in Gentoo Linux (portage)

Here is a background on gentoo and portage.

Gentoo is a linux source based distro, portage its package manager does any 
compiling, patching, 'draft installing' (anything imaginable within a bash 
script) within the directory

/var/tmp/portage/<packages category>/<package name and version>

Portage also locks down all write access to the rest of the file system for 
security reasons.  This is one of the problems that is faced in bring maven 
build support to portage.

Also gentoo already has a package manager I am looking to essentually disable 
maven repository support.   obviously offline mode will help with the 
downloading of dependancies which will be provided by portages dependancy 
support but I would like to know whether it is possible to specify where 
dependancies are located from the command line.

Thanks 

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Re: Using Jars located on System without using a repository

[Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>]

Take a look at this recent thread:
from   Peter.Pilgrim@ubs.com <Pe...@ubs.com>
to   users@maven.apache.org
date  Nov 30, 2006 5:24 AM
subject  MAVEN_INSTALL_DIR/conf/settings.xml

It discusses specifying the localRepository in settings.xml file among
other things you might find useful.

Also, there's a discussing on the Maven Dev list about bringing Maven
to Red Hat w/RPMs etc so you might want to talk a look at that thread
as well. I imagine there are a lot of similarities between your goals.

Wayne

On 12/8/06, Alistair Bush <al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am currently investigating strategies of how to bring maven support to the
> package management system used in Gentoo Linux (portage)
>
> Here is a background on gentoo and portage.
>
> Gentoo is a linux source based distro, portage its package manager does any
> compiling, patching, 'draft installing' (anything imaginable within a bash
> script) within the directory
>
> /var/tmp/portage/<packages category>/<package name and version>
>
> Portage also locks down all write access to the rest of the file system for
> security reasons.  This is one of the problems that is faced in bring maven
> build support to portage.
>
> Also gentoo already has a package manager I am looking to essentually disable
> maven repository support.   obviously offline mode will help with the
> downloading of dependancies which will be provided by portages dependancy
> support but I would like to know whether it is possible to specify where
> dependancies are located from the command line.
>
> Thanks
>
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