Minor correction. The basic method for specifying the external directory is: mvn -DDEV_ACCUMULO_HOME=<absolutePath> package
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > I made some changes for ACCUMULO-935 that may be unexpected, so here's > some information that may help: > > Use 'mvn -DDEV_ACCUMULO_HOME package' to output built artifacts to an > external directory, so the workspace does not get dirtied with > unversioned files outside of the target directories, that need to be > constantly excluded with svn:ignore, .gitignore, rat-maven-plugin, and > exceptions. > > In this external directory, you should be able to run bin/accumulo, > store your conf/* files, etc. Just as before, when you could set > general.classpaths to include target/classes in each module, you can > still do that, pointing to your svn/git checkout target/classes areas. > > Put the following in settings.xml to always copy jars/output to a > runnable ACCUMULO_HOME area, so you don't need to put it on the > command line every time: > > <profiles> > <profile> > <id>inject-accumulo-home</id> > <properties> > <DEV_ACCUMULO_HOME>/var/tmp/ACCUMULO_HOME</DEV_ACCUMULO_HOME> > </properties> > </profile> > </profiles> > <activeProfiles> > <activeProfile>inject-accumulo-home</activeProfile> > </activeProfiles> > > You may notice that files that were previously ignored in the SCM are > now recognized as unversioned. You can simply move these to your > desired DEV_ACCUMULO_HOME location. I would hope that you do not > simply ignore these changes and re-add all these unversioned files > back to svn:ignore/.gitignore, and respect the goal of trying to > minimize maintenance of all the exceptions in the build/packaging that > these unversioned files dirtying the workspace create. > > Right now, the way this directory gets created/used, is pretty clunky, > but it sets things up, so I can work towards doing it more cleanly > with the maven-assembly-plugin. There shouldn't be any further > noticeable changes in terms of the method for activating this external > DEV_ACCUMULO_HOME directory. If there's something I missed (I'm aware > currently of the randomwalk configuration files, and the > fake_disk_failure.so in the system tests) that show up in the source > tree as unversioned files, please let me know, and I'll work to get > them modified so they work in a way that doesn't dirty the workspace > and continue to cause difficulty for packaging. > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
