Maven sometimes need to resolve the artifact to a range of versions or the LATEST. I think the versions in the XML will help in such cases.
Thanks, Raymond ________________________________________________________________ Raymond Feng rf...@apache.org Apache Tuscany PMC member and committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of Tuscany SCA In Action book: www.tuscanyinaction.com Personal Web Site: www.enjoyjava.com ________________________________________________________________ On Apr 13, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Simon Nash wrote: > Raymond Feng wrote: >> If you do mvn deploy from your workspace directly into the repo, it will add >> the current version into the existing maven-metadata.xml. But if you can >> just copy the ones from the staged repo, only 1.6.2 can be seen. I don't >> think it will impact the maven resolution of older versions but it might >> change the discovery. > Thanks for the tip. This suggestion should be added to the "Making Releases" > page. If I do this now, will it regenerate the maven-metadata.xml files and > add the older versions? > > Can you explain more about what it means to change the discovery? I'm still > not sure if this is a problem that I need to fix. > > Simon > >> Thanks, >> Raymond >> /________________________________________________________________ Raymond >> Feng >> rf...@apache.org <mailto:rf...@apache.org> >> /Apache Tuscany PMC member and committer: tuscany.apache.org >> Co-author of Tuscany SCA In Action book: www.tuscanyinaction.com >> Personal Web Site: www.enjoyjava.com >> / >> ________________________________________________________________/ >> On Apr 12, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Simon Nash wrote: >>> I copied the 1.6.2 maven staging artifacts to m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository >>> using the instructions in [1]. Specifically, I did the following: >>> >>> > Or, instead of using the Maven stage plugin just manually copy the >>> > artifacts there: >>> > >>> > cp -p -v -R sca/ >>> > /x1/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository/org/apache/tuscany/sca >>> >>> This overwrote all the maven-metadata.xml files under the target sca/ >>> directory with new files of the form: >>> >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >>> <metadata> >>> <groupId>org.apache.tuscany.sca</groupId> >>> <artifactId>tuscany-assembly</artifactId> >>> <version>1.6.2</version> >>> <versioning> >>> <versions> >>> <version>1.6.2</version> >>> </versions> >>> <lastUpdated>20110406144922</lastUpdated> >>> </versioning> >>> </metadata> >>> >>> These files refer only to the 1.6.2 version, and don't mention all >>> the other Tuscany versions in m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository. >>> >>> Is this a problem? If so, how can I fix it? >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> [1] http://tuscany.apache.org/making-releases.html >>> >
