Julius Davies wrote:
Where I work, we want to start using Maven for our own development. But
we also want all the jar dependencies we declare in our apps to come
from our RHEL subscription. So figuring out a way to achieve that would
be really useful!
I have good news for you: that is already available with our new JPP 1.7
maven2 package.
At JPackage (as well as for RHEL systems) we have already been using the
/usr/share/java as a local maven repository and all software that we
build that is maven based were built using the JARs from there.
+1
We package our own apps into RPM for ease of internal deployment, so I
guess we would need to run this pom2spec thing on our own applications.
That is if you want to build an RPM with your software.
Which is not a bad idea: an RPM is a very handy way to distribute Linux
software. When one of us around here at work wants the others to try
something, we put together a basic RPM so people can
install/upgrade/uninstall it easily, which has proved to be a big
incentive for people to try things.
But we also need all the "official" RHEL jars in a maven repository for
all of our developers (who might be on windows) to use directly from the
pom.xml files, with no mention of RPM.
Already done.
I will be uploading the latest maven2 RPMs from Deepak into JPP 1.7 over
the weekend. Give it a try on Monday. I believe there is some
documentation under 'doc'. If you need help to use it or has any
questions, please ask here (in this list).
So I think we need pom2spec on one side, but we also need "library of
all redhat jar file rpms" to "maven dependency repository " on the other
side.
Done :-)
Best regards,
Fernando
