Perhaps this could help with "stable" releases in future:
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Software_Release_Cadence
*Hilton Gibson*
Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator
Stellenbosch University Library
http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html
On 22 May 2015 at 17:38, Pottinger, Hardy J. <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi, Lewatle, thank you for bringing this to our attention. There appears
> to be a problem with our distribution packaging configuration (confirmed by
> myself and Mark Wood). We are looking into it. The gist of the problem is,
> the Maven overlay folders are not getting packaged up in the distributions.
> These overlay folders are necessary to build DSpace, as our Maven
> configuration expects to find these folders, even if they are empty.
>
> Since this is a "packaging" error, we should be able to produce new
> distribution packages that *do* work, and I expect that will happen later
> today. I hope we'll have a solution for the problem with the packaging
> configuration as well. In the mean time, if you'd like to manually fix your
> own distribution, and you're using the BASH shell (Linux or OSX), run this
> from your dspace-5.2-src-release folder:
>
> cd dspace/modules; for X in jspui lni oai rdf rest sword swordv2 xmlui; do
> mkdir -p $X/src/main/webapp; done
>
> Thanks to Mark Wood for the one-line BASH script. If you're using Windows
> or some other shell, the general idea is: create empty src/main/webapp
> folders in each folder in dspace/modules.
>
> Sorry for the mix-up, I'm sure we'll have this sorted out later today.
>
> --Hardy
>
> PS: if you or anyone else would like to pitch in with the packaging
> debugging, here is how:
>
>
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Release+Procedure#ReleaseProcedure-CreatetheDistributionZipsforSourceForge
>
> Follow along with the instructions in the block that begins "what if I
> deleted..." The gist of it is: start with a fresh clone of DSpace from
> GitHub, check out the 5.2 tag, build the distributions, and then see that
> they are indeed missing the overlay folders...
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Lewatle Phaladi [[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2015 4:43 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Dspace-tech] BUILD FAILURE DSpace5.2
>
> Hi Dspace Team,
>
> I am getting the following error while running :
> $ mvn -U clean package
>
> from dspace-5.2-src-release/dspace
> see error message that follows
>
>
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> BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 3:13.958s
> [INFO] Finished at: Fri May 22 11:34:32 SAST 2015
> [INFO] Final Memory: 37M/191M
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.4:war (default-war) on project
> xmlui: Execution default-war of goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.4:war failed: basedir
> /dspace/src/dspace-5.2-src-release/dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/webapp
> does not exist -> [Help 1]
>
> Regards,
> Lewatle
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