[IVY-1233] Infinite loop in latest-compatible conflict manager

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0-RC1
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Archie Cobbs
• Created: 27/Sep/10 13:43
• Updated: 26/Mar/12 17:30
• Resolved: 30/Aug/11 21:18

Description

Attempting to resolve org="com.gargoylesoftware" name="htmlunit" rev="2.7" from the Ivy RoundUp repository with the latest-compatible conflict manager configured leads to an infinite loop:

$ ant
Buildfile: build.xml

clean:

bug:
[ivy:resolve] :: Ivy 2.2.0-rc1 - 20100629224905 :: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ ::
[ivy:resolve] :: loading settings :: file = /Users/archie/IVYBUG/settings.xml
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
[ivy:resolve] BLACKLISTING [org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ blacklisted to evict org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.7+ in favor of org.apache.xerces#xerces;2.9.1 in com.gargoylesoftware#htmlunit;2.7 for default]
...

See attached test case. To run it, unpack ZIP file, cd into IVYBUG, copy ant-2.2.0-rc1.jar in the current directory and then run "ant".

Issue Links

• duplicates: IVY-1204 Dependency resolution fails if a dependency is resolved and a blacklisted revision is later transitively loaded