On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 04:24:11 -0500 (EST) Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> When using maven the whole concept of "official" archive is different. > BSD ports build from source, so it should download sources, and > sources do not include any of the external dependency nor binaries. > Am I right so far? Right, or more exactly... Building a source via ports mechanism forbids that the build process to download any of the external dependency or binaries. > > The problem with maven is that it downloads dependencies during > source build, which is invalid approach as far as build methodology > is concerned... but it is what it is. Yes. > The Fedora project added wrapper to force maven to use local > repository and for maven artifacts to be installed at this local > repository. This is healthy solution as you build dependencies as > standard packages, then maven will fetch and use these local > packages. This is best way but I'm not able to maintain these build dependencies. > What you seek is binary distribution so ports will use binaries, is > that matches *BSD policy? Using just binaries is fine for ports mechanism, for example tomcat on OpenBSD uses binaries, my WIP jboss port uses official binaries too. jirib _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
