Can you have them set an environment variable to the folder into which they unzipped? there might be a way to make that work.
--Lee On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jeremy Sager <jeremy.a.sa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone - > > I appreciate any help that might be offered on this topic. I have > researched > this on google and have not been able to find an answer, so I'm hoping you > guys can throw something out there to help, or point to a place I missed on > the web that contains the correct information. > > I have a need for people to be able to execute a maven build against my > project from source that is copied onto their machine. > > For government security reasons, the machine does not have internet access, > and the people executing the build have no maven expertise. > > I include a copy of my repository within the zip file that contains the > source code. I include a settings.xml file that tells maven to execute in > offline mode, and points to a local repository. > > I then give the end users a single command that they execute from their > shell, and everything works... except for one problem. > > The localRepository I specify in settings.xml does not seem to accept a > relative path. The relative path to the local repo I've sent them will > always remain the same. > > Alternatively to figuring out the relative path in the settings file I > point > them to, I am quite content to change what I'm doing on the command line, > as > in mvn -o -Dmaven.local-repo=foo/bar/repository. However, from what I've > seen maven.local-repo no longer works. > > The goal is to give these guys a zip of my source, which includes my > repository (thanks to the assembly plugin), and have them unzip and be able > to run with a single command line. Again, they have no local repo and no > internet access. > > One final point. If I use an absolute path to the repository in > settings.xml, everything works great. > > Any advice is appreciated, and thank you for your time. > > Jeremy > -- -- Lee Meador Sent from gmail. My real email address is lee AT leemeador.com
