Yes, that is very similar to our requirement: We need to lock down the build environment to be able to reproduce the build at anytime in the future.
Here are the high level objectives: Checkout all projects from SVN Build projects using Maven and install them to the local Maven repository. We would need to start with the parent projects. Totally agree: we will not check in everything in SVN. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Manfred Moser [via Maven] < ml-node+4288827-1669842602-196...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > > We have a compliance/audit requirement that we need to be able to > exactly > > reproduce builds. (Current requirement does not allow the build machine > > access to our internal nexus repository.) > > I have had to deal with this sort of requirement in the past in ISO, FDA > and code repository context. In my opinion you need to be able to build > "without anything else apart from the supplied codebase/artifacts". In the > Maven world the best way to achieve this is to package up all the source > code and your repository server setup (or at least the repository used by > your build with all artifacts as well as Maven in the exact version you > use. > > You will have to lock down all plugin and dependency versions and be sure > to have them in the repo and then you will be able to do a complete > offline build with the repo. > > If you dont do that you will have some major nightmares in terms of > reproducibility of the build and the used artifacts. Do NOT follow down > the path of "just" trying to check everything into svn. If you do that you > properly you will end up with the repository server in svn. Might as well > allow the repo server to be an artifact... > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4288827&i=0&by-user=t> > For additional commands, e-mail: [hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4288827&i=1&by-user=t> > > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Checkout-and-Build-all-dependencies-tp4287477p4288827.html > To unsubscribe from Checkout and Build all dependencies, click > here<http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4287477&code=YW5hc211Z2hhbEBnbWFpbC5jb218NDI4NzQ3N3wtMzc0Njc1OTEy>. > > -- Anas Mughal -- View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Checkout-and-Build-all-dependencies-tp4287477p4289419.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
