On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:19:31PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > There are tools to help packaging software and there are examples, see > http://pkg-java.debian.org
http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org > Also, we surely need more informations that those provided by the pom.xml > > >And another one ... would it make sense to get everything maven > >downloads when it runs through its dependency system in some location > >like /usr/share/java/maven2/repository so that it comes available for > >all users? Could this be expanded to be actually used as a packaging > >system? > > if we patch maven, we maybe could use /usr/share/java so maven could > find the jars. We also maybe could tell maven how to find the > packages. If the package does not exist in Debian, maven should > download it from another location and put the package in another > location /var/cache/maven? /usr/local/share/maven? I don't know and it > needs to be discussed. This problem could be not acceptable for our > users because packages that maven download would not be package by > Debian developers. These packages could be non free for example. > > User download: Maven can install packages in $HOME/.m2/... What will > be our decision about that? Ask for the admin password? send a mail to > root to ask him/her to install the package? install the package in > $HOME/.m2?... There are some possible solutions for this. For example we could go an apt-get like way and put all downloaded stuff into /var/cache/maven2 which could be writable by a suid-helper. The RedHat guys have a patch to make maven aware of the intalled java rpms to provide java software. I want to incorporate that in Debian too. Cheers, Michael -- .''`. | Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : | Free Java Developer <http://www.classpath.org> `. `' | `- | 1024D/BAC5 4B28 D436 95E6 F2E0 BD11 5923 A008 2763 483B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
