Re: System-wide, read-only repository

2013-10-29 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 29 October 2013 23:56, Lyons, Roy wrote: > Unfortunately, you will always have something in $HOME/.m2/repository > because that's how maven works. > > Can I suggest perhaps that you use zfs for deduplication in /home? > Otherwise, you can add something like Or give them more disk space - isn't

maven assembly plugin not retaining timestamps of files

2013-10-29 Thread Steve Cohen
When building a .tar.gz archive with the maven assembly plugin, should it not be keeping the timestamps of the files it is adding to the archive? This is how tar behaves. I find it NOT to be the case with the assembly plugin. The files are dated with the time they were added to the archive.

Re: System-wide, read-only repository

2013-10-29 Thread Lyons, Roy
Unfortunately, you will always have something in $HOME/.m2/repository because that's how maven works. Can I suggest perhaps that you use zfs for deduplication in /home? Otherwise, you can add something like -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/${USER}_repository (with a mkdir -p in their profile or something t

System-wide, read-only repository

2013-10-29 Thread Matthieu Moy
Hi, I have a setup with many users (200 students), each of them having a limited $HOME. I'm looking for a way to provide them the most common plugins and dependencies and save disk space. Is there a way to have a system-wide (e.g. /usr/share/maven/... or so) repository, where the sysadmin coul