I would also point out that the plugins do not need packaging, as maven will download them. Only the base distribution needs to be RPM'd.
Sent from my iPhone On 16/03/2012, at 9:46 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni...@redhat.com> wrote: > Quoting Jos Backus (2012-03-15 21:04:00) >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install Maven 3 in automatically generated CentOS VM >> images, and having Maven 3 and plugins available as RPMs would help >> greatly with this effort. >> >> How hard would it be to augment the CI setup that creates the Maven >> packages today to also generate RPMs for RHEL/CentOS? Perhaps the >> Maven RPM plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/rpm-maven-plugin/) can be >> used for this purpose? >> >> I looked at jpackage.org but the latest Maven version there is too old >> (2.0.7). > > Depending on your needs for using exact upstream (meaning Apache) > version or not you *might* have luck trying to use Fedora binary rpms on > your CentOS machine. I haven't tried this, but with a 1 or 2 rebuilds it > might work. You'd have to create your own rpm repo for this probably and > do a few tweaks here and there. Biggest issue would probably be that > some of our current binary rpms in F17 and rawhide are built using > OpenJDK 7 with target set to 1.7 so you won't be able to use them with > 1.6 VM. > > We do have 3.0.4 currently and quite a few plugins, but if you go this > way I'd suggest to ask questions on <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>. > > -- > Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni...@redhat.com> > Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno > > PGP: 7B087241 > Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
