Re: [Users] OS-independent ovirt-engine distribution archive

From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:20:03 AM Subject: Re: [Users] OS-independent ovirt-engine distribution archive On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 04:24:11 -0500 (EST) Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; 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