Hi Rogerio, The strategy adopted is to run Maven in offline mode and pick the artifacts from the local repository in /usr/share/maven-repo. This repository is populated by the installed packages. This solves the network access issue.
The other issue is the mismatch between the version of the artifacts required to build a project and the version of the artifacts actually packaged, since Debian ships usually only one version for a given distribution. The solution here is to rewrite the pom.xml file at build time to point to the version available in Debian. All of this magic is performed by maven-debian-helper and maven-repo-helper. To create a package from a Maven project you start by running the mh_make tool in the upstream source directory. You'll be asked several questions about the dependencies and it will generate a package stub. Some further reading on this topic: https://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenRepoSpec https://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenRepoHelper Alternatively, if you just want to package a Maven project for your private use with no intent to upload it into the Debian archive I recommend using the jdeb Maven plugin, that's much simpler. https://github.com/tcurdt/jdeb Emmanuel Bourg Le 28/01/2014 07:43, [email protected] a écrit : > Hi there. > > First, some introduction here: I am a novice (*very* novice, still in my > baby steps) regarding programming in Java. > > That being said, from my Debian-Maintainer PoV, I would like to, sometimes, > package (or help packaging, or reviewing) packages that use maven as the > build tool. > > Unfortunately, I see that Maven downloads all the dependencies from the > network at build time and, in the Debian spirit, I would like to declare > build dependencies and convince maven to use the installed dependencies. > > What is the approved/recommended way of doing this? > > > Thanks in advance, > Rogério Brito. > > > P.S.: Of course, if something is not packaged, I may be willing (depending > on how much knowledge is needed---I am a newbie, after all) to package the > dependencies to have everything self-contained. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
