On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Justin Edelson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Vidar Ramdal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Vidar Ramdal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Vidar Ramdal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> > On Feb 7, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Vidar Ramdal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >> >> Hi, I'm trying to set up a build that will always use the latest
>>>>> >> >> snapshot of our in-house bundles.
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> Thus, I'm specifying <version>LATEST</version> in the bundle list 
>>>>> >> >> XML
>>>>> >> file:
>>>>> >> >>        <bundle>
>>>>> >> >>            <groupId>com.idium.kolibri</groupId>
>>>>> >> >>            <artifactId>kolibri-loginmodule</artifactId>
>>>>> >> >>            <version>LATEST</version>
>>>>> >> >>        </bundle>
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> The build fails constantly with "Embedded error: Unable to determine
>>>>> >> >> the latest version" (see full stacktrace below).
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> Is this supposed to work with the Launchpad plugin?
>>>>> >> >> [...]
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Justin Edelson <
>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>> >> > The plugin uses the normal Maven artifact resolution subsystem, so it
>>>>> >> should work. We use RELEASE as the http service version.
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > I personally don't use LATEST. I have the impression the Maven devs
>>>>> >> regret supporting it in the first place, but AFAIK, it's still
>>>>> supported.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Thanks, Justin. The only reason I want to use LATEST in this case, is
>>>>> >> to have an automated launchpad build with all the latest checkins, for
>>>>> >> testing purposes. So that I don't have to update the bundle list XML
>>>>> >> when a bundle is released in a new version.
>>>>> >> In this case it seems LATEST makes sense - or are there other ways to
>>>>> >> accomplish what I want?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Justin Edelson <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > I wasn't saying you *shouldn't* use LATEST, just providing some context.
>>>>> I
>>>>> > would suggest using RELEASE instead of LATEST in this particular case as
>>>>> > that seems closer to what you want.
>>>>>
>>>>> >> > Can you post the maven-metadata.xml for this artifact from you repo
>>>>> >> manager to a pastebin?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Here: http://pastebin.com/uNpJMXQM
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks. There's no <latest> element in this file (or <release> for that
>>>>> > matter, so forget what I said above about RELEASE until you can figure
>>>>> that
>>>>> > out). Compare with
>>>>> >
>>>>> http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/sling/maven-launchpad-plugin/maven-metadata.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, that sheds some light on things. So the maven-metadata needs
>>>>> to explicitly define <latest> and <release>. My impression was that
>>>>> the artifact resolution process would resolve he latest snapshot (and
>>>>> release) version by simply examining the <versions> element.
>>>>>
>>>>> > Now the question is how does the <latest> and <release> get there. And
>>>>> that,
>>>>> > as you say, is a Maven question. What repository manager are you using?
>>>>> How
>>>>> > are you doing releases?
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently no repository manager at all; the metadata.xml file I posted
>>>>> was from my local ~/.m2. Again, I thought a simple mvn install/deploy
>>>>> would update the metadata with what I need.
>>>>>
>>>>> So are the <latest> and <release> elements actually proprietary to
>>>>> some repository managers?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vidar-
>>>> I haven't had a chance to look into this further, but I just remembered
>>>> something. I seem to recall that <latest> and <release> were only set on a
>>>> remote repository, not in the local repository. You don't need a repository
>>>> manager, just a place you can copy files to (typically via HTTP, SCP, or
>>>> file://). Repository managers have other things going for them, but SCP +
>>>> Apache has served me well in the past as well.
>>>>
>>>> Give this a shot.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Vidar Ramdal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks Justin, it doesn't seem to be set on my remote repository
>>> either. Someone told me to use -DupdateReleaseInfo=true, but that only
>>> set <release> to a snapshot version.
>>>
>>> I'll look further into it, thanks a lot for your help.
>>> (One problem of googling for Maven solutions is that you get all these
>>> hits from pages GENERATED by Maven ... sigh)
>>
>> I was explained on [email protected] [1] that <latest> is only
>> set for plugins, which explains why it never was updated for my
>> bundles.
> Hmmm. This doesn't appear to be the case:
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/sling/org.apache.sling.event/maven-metadata.xml
>
> But either way, it doesn't work, so it should be fixed.
>
>>
>> As suggested by Benjamin in that thread, I tried specifying a version
>> range of [0,) instead of LATEST, which then causes an NPE:
>> ava.lang.NullPointerException: version was null for
>> com.idium.kolibri:kolibri-cache-util
>>        at
>> org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact.getBaseVersion(DefaultArtifact.java:390)
>>        at
>> org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.layout.DefaultRepositoryLayout.pathOf(DefaultRepositoryLayout.java:47)
>>        at
>> org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepository.pathOf(DefaultArtifactRepository.java:110)
>>        at
>> org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:141)
>>        at
>> org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:90)
>>        at
>> org.apache.sling.maven.projectsupport.AbstractBundleListMojo.getArtifact(AbstractBundleListMojo.java:196)
>>
>> Should I register this as a bug with maven-launchpad-plugin?
>
> Please do. I've almost got this fixed, so if you don't, I'll have to
> before committing it :)

Actually, I'll create the issue. It's fixed locally.
>
> Justin
>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/zyz23ootcpsucsrn
>>
>>
>> --
>> Vidar S. Ramdal <[email protected]> - http://www.idium.no
>> Sommerrogata 13-15, N-0255 Oslo, Norway
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>> Quando omni flunkus moritatus!
>>
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