If you want to deploy a pre-configured ~/.m2/settings.xml you can do that
perfectly fine with ansible, just configure it to generate missing parent
directories. It is normal that dot files/dirs in user directory are created
only on first use. This is not specific to RedHat, and there is also nothing
special to the directory, just create it as needed and make sure it has the
correct owner and permission.
We have good experiences with doing that in a developer workplace provisioning,
but as mention by others we would not force ancient versions upon developers.
BTW you really need a internal repository Server anyway, if you have that you
can also use it to download the actual maven archive for installation.
Gruss
Bernd
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Gesendet: Thursday, August 19, 2021 6:43:34 PM
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Betreff: RE: Question on installing Maven from Red Hat (RHEL8), missing .m2
directory for users
Thanks for the reply.
I've worked with different version of RHEL for sometimes now and its my
understanding that Red Hat packages older versions of software because they
know it "should" work out of the box.
Forgot to mention, this is a air-gapped environment, so its hard to get things
in and out of it, so going with the Maven release from Red Hat maybe our only
option, but I want to test a tarball in a virtualized environment, see how that
works too.
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