Answers inline: On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 4:16 PM Greg Chabala <greg.chab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have *war that I've built on 3 different Macs (maven-war-plugin 3.3.2). > > > > Is there a reason you're rebuilding your WAR three times on different Macs? > One Mac Mini is my home machine, the other is the office machine. I'm 60%/40% home or office, and I try to keep them in sync as much as possible (excluding personal files). The laptop (a personal machine) I take with me for the times I'm called to check on something while out-of-town. > > The code is pulled from my local git repo, and the supporting jars are > from > > a local Nexus repository. > > Are they all building from the same git branch/ref? Everything is pulled > current? > Yes. > The missing JAR is in each local repository. I do not see this JAR when I > > run `mvn dependency:tree`, though I see a different (newer) version as > > "provided." > > Provided means you are in charge of supplying the JAR, not Maven. Typically > this means you expect the JAR will already be available at runtime, e.g. in > your application server's provided JARs, so there's no point in bundling it > into your WAR. Are you certain this is not just a case of having different > application server versions installed, or someone manually updated the > provided JARs on one of them? > Currently I'm using Tomcat 9.0.70 on each Mac. They are set up the same way. > The missing JAR doesn't seem to matter when the webapp runs (no > > problems found so far). Any idea as to why, and > > > what I can (or should?) do for a consistent build? > > Make sure you're not using version ranges, and that all versions are > specified. For more tips, see: > https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-reproducible-builds.html > > This is all hypothetical, you didn't show/reference a concrete example pom > we could look at. > Thanks. I'll look into the reproducible builds guide. -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 111-13)
