[Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki

[Shireesh Anjal]

On Tuesday 27 November 2012 02:06 PM, Noam Slomianko wrote:
> Oh, sorry.
> Didnt notice it was sent to an ovit mailing list :D
>
> so, my solution is:
>
> create two different files (containing at least):
>
> <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
>            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>            xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
>                                http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
>
> <!--**************************** PROFILES ****************************-->
>
>          <localRepository>{maven_home}/{repository}</localRepository>
>
>          <activeProfiles>
>                          <activeProfile>oVirtEnvSettings</activeProfile>
>          </activeProfiles>
>
>          <profiles>
>                  <profile>
>                          <id>oVirtEnvSettings</id>
>                          <properties>
>                                  <jbossHome>{jboss location}</jbossHome>
>                                  <JAVA_HOME>{java location}</JAVA_HOME>
>                                  <gwt.userAgent>gecko1_8</gwt.userAgent>
>                          </properties>
>                  </profile>
>           </profiles>
> </settings>
>
> Between the two file you change:
>   - {jboss location}, self explanatory
>   - {java location}, only if they are of a different version
>   - {repository}, so you dont get conflicting packages
> Of course they shouldn't be called Settings.xml
>
>
> And then add a change script so its easy to switch via a soft link, mine is:
> if [ $1 = "up" ]
> then
>          rm ~/.m2/settings.xml
>          ln -s ~/.m2/settingsUp.xml ~/.m2/settings.xml
>          echo "changed jboss to upstream (1.7)"
> else
>          rm ~/.m2/settings.xml
>          ln -s ~/.m2/settingsDown.xml ~/.m2/settings.xml
>          echo "changed jboss to downstream (1.6)"
> fi

Another trick is to use the --settings option of maven e.g.

mvn --settings ~/.m2/settingsUp.xml clean install -Pdep

>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Noam Slomianko" <nslomian at redhat.com>
> To: "Ofri Masad" <omasad at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, "Alissa Bonas" <abonas at redhat.com>, "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:27:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki
>
> The Intranet is a black hole... documents can only go in never to be found again.
> I needed to go back 3 months in my browsing history to find this, because why should it be found with keywords like upstream or downstream :P
>
> https://home.corp.redhat.com/wiki/working-downstream-and-upstream-parallel
>
> Have fun,
> Noam.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ofri Masad" <omasad at redhat.com>
> To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>, "Noam Slomianko" <nslomian at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, "Alissa Bonas" <abonas at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't seem to find it, but i think there was a wiki page about working with multiple environments (Upstream/Downstream/ZStream...)
>
> Currently I'm using soft links to the setting.xml and .m2 repo. That way i can jump safely and quickly between environments.
> The paths are hard codded in the xml but i have few xml files ponting to different jdk and jboss.
>   
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> To: "Alissa Bonas" <abonas at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 6:52:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki
>
> Hi,
>
> That too could work, but once it already needs to be in the settings.xml, why would you want another configuration file (like .bashrc)?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alissa Bonas" <abonas at redhat.com>
>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:15:14 AM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In this wiki http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Building_oVirt_engine
>>
>> The suggested maven settings.xml contains hardcoded paths to
>> jboss_home and java_home.
>> IMHO it's better to use environment variables to take the above
>> settings from there, instead of managing those settings twice in 2
>> different places.
>>
>> The current settings look like this (note that java path is incorrect
>> anyway, including /bin/java)
>>
>>   <jbossHome>/usr/share/jboss-as</jbossHome>
>>   <JAVA_HOME>/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.0.x86_64/bin/java</JAVA_HOME>
>>
>> How about changing settings.xml to something like:
>>
>>    <jbossHome>${env.JBOSS_HOME}</jbossHome>
>>    <JAVA_HOME>${env.JAVA_HOME}</JAVA_HOME>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone see a problem with the suggested approach?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Alissa
>>
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