Thanks for the quick reply. but can you clarify as to 1. what is the use of ~/.m2 directory?
2. is there anyway to give ignoreRules from pom.xml or from mvn command line? 3. where can I find the complete list of elements which can be specified in pom.xml On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 06/11/2014 08:53, Raaj S a écrit : > > Hi Raaj, > > > 1. are we supposed to search for deb package for each dependency in > > pom.xml? > > Yes. I suggest using 'apt-file find <artifactId> | grep pom' to search > for the deb package. > > > 2. if yes then what is use of .m2 repository and all the jars in it? > > The local repository in the user directory is not used when building > Debian packages. The system directory in /usr/share/maven-repo is used > exclusively. > > > 3. why does mh_make look into /usr/share/maven-repo or which is the > > export variable which points it. changing $REPO is not making it look > > into ~/.m2 > > > This is a consequence of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. If you > want to add a package in Debian it has to be built from sources, > including its dependencies. And the sources have to be available as a > buildable Debian package. > > This means you can't download compiled code over the Internet during the > build like a jar from a remote Maven repository. To work around this > issue we assemble a system repository made of Maven artifacts from > Debian packages only. > > Note that this constraint really apply to *official* Debian packages. If > you are building a package for your own usage or for your company, > mh_make is not the best tool. In this case I recommend using jdeb > (https://github.com/tcurdt/jdeb). > > > 4. why do we need a deb package for a pom jar dependency if at all we > > need it. > > Not sure to understand what you mean here. I assume you are referring to > the parent poms like the commonly used sonatype oss-parent. You can tell > mh_make to ignore them. > > Emmanuel Bourg > >
