[BUILDR-424] Buildr should support JPackage style remote file:// repositories

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: Dependency management
• Environment: Fedora and RPM based systems
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adam Young
• Created: 16/Apr/10 18:37
• Updated: 20/May/16 07:20
• Resolved: 20/May/16 07:20

Description

A build system needs a more controlled environment to produce reproduceable builds than the Maven dependency resolution mechanism currently provides. For JPackage, they have modified Maven to look in a local repository for builds: /usr/share/maven and also to use a mapping file to produce much shorter paths.

This is relatively trivial to implement in buildr, and would provide a great path forward for people that are currently using maven to build their projects.

It would require an injection in artifact.rb's download function where a repository would have an optional code block, that performes the same logic as

path = "#

{group_path}

/#

{id}

/#

{version}

/#

{File.basename(name)}

"
URI.download repo_url + path, name

But allows the munging of the pieces that make up the path, most specifically the group_path