[GERONIMO-234] Build fails when maven/plugins is not writable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-M1
• Component/s: buildsystem

Environment

Linux [Debian | SuSE ], Maven RC1, Geronimo HEAD

• Assignee: Dain Sundstrom
• Reporter: Bernd Fondermann
• Created: 15/May/04 09:34
• Updated: 16/Jul/06 18:00
• Resolved: 27/Jul/05 07:10

Description

When building by invoking 'maven' the build fails with the following error message when the maven plugin directory is not writable:

+----------------------------------------

Executing (default): Geronimo :: Deployment

Memory: 34M/43M +---------------------------------------- Attempting to download geronimo-xmlbeans-plugin-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. Attempting to download geronimo-kernel-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. Attempting to download geronimo-common-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. Attempting to download geronimo-system-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar.

BUILD FAILED
File...... file:/home/username/apache/incubator-geronimo/
Element... maven:reactor
Line...... 180
Column.... 27
/usr/local/maven-1.0-rc1/plugins/geronimo-xmlbeans-plugin-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar (Permission denied)

The immediate fix is to make plugins folder writable.

I don't like any project modifying their sibbling projects... couldn't this also lead to unexpected results in a multi-user environment where maven is shared among users?