+1 sounds good to me.

Cheers,
Jamie

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Christian Schneider
<[email protected]> wrote:
> +1
>
> Makes sense to me to make the system repo look like a real maven repo.
>
> Christian
>
>
> Am 06.02.2012 16:33, schrieb Jean-Baptiste Onofré:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm back to you with a proposal.
>>
>> Currently, as the Karaf system repo doesn't contain the artifacts
>> metadata, without this metadata, aether always download the artifact from
>> the "remote" repo.
>>
>> If we have the metadata in the Karaf system repo, if the "local" metadata
>> are newer than the remote ones, aether won't download the artifact from the
>> remote repo. If the metadata is newer on the remote repo, aether will
>> download the metadata and the artifact from the remote.
>> It's the normal behavior, the one expected by aether.
>>
>> So basically, including metadata in the Karaf system repo fixes our
>> problem and we have a consistent behavior.
>>
>> Aether also provides an API (a kind of installArtifact() method) which
>> generate the artifact metadata.
>>
>> So, my proposal is to enhance the Karaf Maven plugin and Pax URL to use
>> Aether API. The purpose is to have the metadata in the Karaf system repo.
>>
>> Pros:
>> - Karaf system repo is real Maven3 compliant repository
>> - We respect a Maven3 style artifact lifecycle
>>
>> Cons:
>> - We have a small overhead (in terms of space usage) in the system repo
>> (metadata properties, pom xml, etc)
>>
>> WDYT ?
>>
>> Regards
>> JB
>>
>> On 02/02/2012 10:04 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On Karaf trunk (3.0), we currently from an issue around artifact
>>> resolution (due to pax-url/aether).
>>>
>>> It's something that David, Achim and I are aware, but I would like to
>>> warn and inform everyone (to avoid unpredictable behaviors ;)).
>>>
>>> 1/ SNAPSHOT resolution
>>> Currently, the system repo doesn't contain Maven metadata, sha1, Maven
>>> properties files. So, Aether always downloads the SNAPSHOT from Central
>>> and overrides the file locally in system repo.
>>> For instance, if you change the Karaf features file locally in the
>>> build, the generated distribution will embed the updated file, but this
>>> file will be overrided (when you perform feature:list or
>>> feature:list-url) by the one on snapshot remote repo.
>>> A "simple" workaround is to deploy the feature file (mvn deploy), but
>>> it's really ugly.
>>>
>>> 2/ Karaf bootstrap time
>>> A side effect is that Karaf 3.0 is really long to start and bootstrap,
>>> because Karaf checkes for update for each bundles/artifacts in system
>>> repo.
>>> I evaluated that Karaf 3 takes 10 more times than Karaf 2 to start
>>> (depending of the network connection).
>>>
>>> I consider it as a major issue, and I'm focusing on it (on both Karaf
>>> and Pax URL).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> JB
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Christian Schneider
> http://www.liquid-reality.de
>
> Open Source Architect
> Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
>

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