Re: [gentoo-soc] [GSoC] Maven integration for Gentoo ebuilds

[Kasun Gajasinghe <kasunbg@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe <kasunbg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 29 Mar 2011, at 09:37, Serkan Kaba <serkan@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>> On 29-03-2011 06:47, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote:
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>>> I'd like to know how the dependencies will be handled by maven based
>>> ebuilds. Can you let me know the difference between dependencies
>>> specified in Maven's POM file, and ebuild's dependencies? Are both
>>> should be same? Since, Maven's POM contains the unique artifacts IDs
>>> (with the combination of groupId, artifactId, version) which points to
>>> a _binary_ jar, how should the developers who write _ebuilds_ specify
>>> it? I got to know that dependencies are also ebuilds under gentoo i.e.
>>> no binaries.
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>> POM dependencies can be too restrictive sometimes, like depending on a
>> specific version. We should be depending on any version (or sometimes
>> with >=,<=) as long as the package compiles and runs fine with it.
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> I've come across a package called JPackage which does the job of retrieving
> a jar from /usr/share/java and return it to use by maven. It neglects the
> version numbers as well.
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>>> I've been going through the Ralph's (nick: sera ) suggested eclass
>>> [1]. It turned out to be very useful. (sera, I got your name from [1],
>>> hope it's correct! :) ). Because maven offline building is the biggest
>>> issue Gentoo is currently facing, As Petteri suggested, I've been
>>> going through to see how other distributions handle this. I see that
>>> both in sera's eclass and in Debian's MavenRepoSpec [2], that they
>>> specify a variable which points to a maven local-repository location.
>>> Ralph's eclass specified MAVEN_REPO_DIR="${T}/maven-repo/" while
>>> Debian has REPO=/usr/share/maven-repo. Since the file-system will be
>>> read-only for ebuilds, and ebuilds should be built offline, what's the
>>> purpose of this?
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>> We then still need to add symlinks to jars during build time in there
>> which is an "access violation" in sand box
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> Ok. Then the viable option is to have to generate the maven directory
> structure inside a folder named ${T}/maven-repo. We can do the symlinking
> through that, and we won't face any access violation since the writing
> happens in the sandbox.
> Ubuntu too have proposed a similar solution. I'm away from my machine, I'll
> provide the links to it as well as for the JPackage soon if it you all may
> want to check it out!

For the JPackage see [1]. [1] doesn't give a formatted output though.
Properly formatted version is to [2]
Ubuntu's maven support specification is at [3].

I've started writing a proposal. I'll upload it to melange, when it
comes to a good state.

[1] http://www.jpackage.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jpackage/src/jpackage-utils/doc/jpackage-1.5-policy.xhtml?revision=1.2&view=markup
[2] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4783109/gentoo-maven-integration/read/%5Bjpackage%5D%20Contents%20of%20%20src%20jpackage-utils%20doc%20jpackage-1.5-policy.html

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Specs/MavenSupportSpec

Thanks,
--Kasun

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> Thanks,
> Kasun
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>> Sincerely,
>> Serkan KABA
>> Gentoo Developer
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