[Engine-devel] Shipping settings.xml in oVirt engine's git repo (was RE: maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki)

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/28/2012 03:38 AM, Moti Asayag wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 10:05 AM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
>> <snipped>
>>> Note that settings.xml isn't shifted with ovirt-engine, nor stored on
>>> ovirt-engine git repository. Therefore there is no real method to
>>> control its content expect updating the wiki page.
>>
>> Spinning off from the previous discussion - we can't really control the contents of settings.xml, but perhaps we can make them easier to get.
>>
>> Today, the flow is like this:
>> 1. git clone - depends on gerrit.ovirt.org
>> 2. wget settings.xml - depends on wiki.ovirt.org
>>
>> Suppose we ship settings.xml inside the configuration folder of ovirt (next to engine-code-format.xml and engine-commit-template.txt).
>> Then you'll have to do:
>> 1. git clone - depends on gerrit.ovirt.org
>> 2. cp $OVIRT_GIT/config/settings.xml ~/.m2/
>
> I don't think we should override an already existed shared configuration
> file.

user doesn't have to do this, and we can also suggest they run mvn with 
this file as an mvn option instead of copying it to default location.