Why has this community taken the repository and made it so damn
confusing?   What's the deal with rewriting all these POMs?

Tim O'Brien

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Nicholas Bamber <nicho...@periapt.co.uk> wrote:
> I am also finding java packaging frustrating. I;'ve hit the problem that
> maven-ant-tasks needed upgraded. Then I hit the problem that
> maven-invoker-plugin. Now I am stuck.
>
> On 20/04/11 22:08, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> thanks for pushing me a bit - I did not forgot your request, but somehow
>> there are several tasks at the same time.  As far as I understood the
>> build process in Debian using maven and maven-debian-helper there is a
>> chance to avoid the "nasty habit of requiring access to the outside
>> world".  This can be approached by using mh_make and thus I tried
>>
>>   mh_make
>> --from-svn=http://svn.freemedsoftware.org/freemed-utilities/shim/tags/0.1.0/
>>
>> which unfortunately failed with
>>
>> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
>> [INFO]
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [INFO] Cannot execute mojo: generate. It requires a project with an
>> existing pom.xml, but the build is not using one.
>>
>> I have no idea what this might mean.
>>
>> My second approach was to start with your preparation and enhance the
>> debian/dir a bit.  I used the orig.tar.gz tarball[1] and committed the
>> packaging directory to Debian Med SVN[2]
>>
>> [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/shim/shim_0.1.1.orig.tar.gz
>> [2] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/shim/trunk
>>
>> While this build process does not need network access it is missing
>> some preconditions:
>>
>> 0) POM 'org.mortbay.jetty:maven-jetty-plugin' not found in repository:
>> System is offline.
>>
>> 1) com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:debian
>> 2) org.rxtx:rxtx:jar:debian
>>    (which is a bit strange because I added librxtx-java)
>> 3) org.tmatesoft.sqljet:sqljet:jar:debian
>> 4) org.reflections:reflections:jar:debian
>>
>> I did not further investigations so far but it seems we might need some
>> extra prerequisites packaged for Debian first.
>>
>> Any help to proceed from here is welcome.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>      Andreas.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:01:59PM -0400, Jeff Buchbinder wrote:
>>>
>>> Following up, I'm attaching basic packaging for FreeSHIM. I split out
>>> the proprietary driver, for which I can create a separate package, but
>>> for now, here's the GPL-only code and packaging information.
>>>
>>> I had tried to create a version for Ubuntu's "launchpad" PPAs, but as
>>> Maven has a nasty habit of requiring access to the outside world, it
>>> would require me quite messily including *every dependent package*
>>> locally to work, so I have shelved that effort temporarily.
>>>
>>> If this looks good, I can do the same for REMITT.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeff
>>> (j...@freemedsoftware.org)
>>> FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc
>>> http://freemedsoftware.org/
>>
>>
>>
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