On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:56:22PM -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several maven-based projects that I'd like to create ports for, but
> our build process makes that challenging.
>
> Maven (for those who don't know) likes to download additional files as it
> compiles which is a non-starter for our build process. A solution that I
> have found to work around this is to run maven once, let it cache the files
> locally, turn them into a tarball which I then place in my "files"
> directory and make the real port run maven in offline mode from the cached
> files in the tarball.
Upload the tarball to somewhere and use {pre,post,do}-configure,build,etc
to build the port. (look in man bsd.port.mk)
You can use various distfiles per port.
>
> This process works, but it sure seems awkward.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could make this better?
>
> Or even better, perhaps I'm missing an understanding of part of the build
> infrastructure that I could get educated on. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
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