Regarding this subject, I've managed to "resolve" dependencies by removing them from the project. So my plugin will check if an rpm is installed, and if not, it will fail. If everything is ok, then the rpm dependency will be removed from the project, so that Maven cannot do the check on its own. This way, it will "skip" all rpm dependencies.

List<Dependency> deps = mavenProject.getDependencies();
Iterator<Dependency> diter = deps.iterator();
while (diter.hasNext()) {
 Dependency dep = diter.next();
 if ("rpm".equals(dep.getType())) {
     diter.remove();       // make Maven "forget" about this dependency
     checkDependencyOnMyOwn(dep);
 }
}

I'm now waiting for comments why this is a horrible butchering of Maven :)

Regards, Csaba


Gajo Csaba wrote:
Ah cool, some of my colleagues are experimenting with it, I'll ask them tomorrow!


Csaba Madai wrote:
Have you tried Artifactory? It's not a plugin, but I assume it will do
the job for you :)

Csaba

2009/11/23 Gajo Csaba <csaba.g...@cosylab.com>:
Hello Csaba :)

The problem I might potentially have is that we use two repositories, one is Maven and the other is YUM. So it is possible for an artifact (rpm) to be in YUM, but not in the Maven repository. In this case, my plugin would check if it's in YUM and download it... otherwise it would fail. But it should not
fail if it's not in the Maven repository.

Regards, Csaba


Csaba Madai wrote:
Hi,

I think thats the point of the dependency, to "be there", why do you
use a dependency in your pom when it's not necesarry? :)

Csaba

2009/11/23 Gajo Csaba <csaba.g...@cosylab.com>:

Hello,

Is there a way to write a plugin or something, which would check if a
dependency exists, and if it doesn't, then just skips it? Currently if a dependency is missing and cannot be downloaded, then the build will fail.

Thanks, Csaba




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