Internal plugin repository - how to populate?

[ArneD <pu...@degenring.de>]

In many corporate environments it is unacceptable to let users download Maven
plugins automatically and directly from the Internet (even not through a
proxy). Therefore, it is necessary to set up an internal plugin repository.
 
Question: Is there an easy way how to initially populate the internal
repository with all the maven plugins needed?
 
I considered the following ways:
1. mvn deploy:deploy-file for all the plugin jars. Problem: This seems to be
a rather inconvenient approach with lots of manual work.
2. First popule a local repository by running all desired Maven goals, and
then copy the local repository contents to the internal remote repository.
Problem: As far as I understood, this wouldn't work, because a remote
repository contains some extra XML definition files, that are not available
in the local repository.
 
Any other ideas?
 
Thanks in advance,
Arne

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Re: Internal plugin repository - how to populate?

[Feniks Nator <fe...@gmail.com>]

I agree, it's not an easy job. I'm having the same problems right now.
I hope the maven repository manager will solve some of those difficulties.
See: http://maven.apache.org/repository-manager
There not that much information available, as it's still under development.

Another 'option' is to use the Maven-Proxy, this also eases the setup of an
internal repository.
See: http://maven-proxy.codehaus.org/
However it does not really solve the problem of initializing the internal
repository.

If you find any good solution to this, please let me know. It would help us
also.




On 5/29/06, ArneD <pu...@degenring.de> wrote:
>
>
> In many corporate environments it is unacceptable to let users download
> Maven
> plugins automatically and directly from the Internet (even not through a
> proxy). Therefore, it is necessary to set up an internal plugin
> repository.
>
> Question: Is there an easy way how to initially populate the internal
> repository with all the maven plugins needed?
>
> I considered the following ways:
> 1. mvn deploy:deploy-file for all the plugin jars. Problem: This seems to
> be
> a rather inconvenient approach with lots of manual work.
> 2. First popule a local repository by running all desired Maven goals, and
> then copy the local repository contents to the internal remote repository.
> Problem: As far as I understood, this wouldn't work, because a remote
> repository contains some extra XML definition files, that are not
> available
> in the local repository.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Arne
>
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