[KARAF-971] Add support for version ranges in features descriptor <repository/> element

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.4
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0.M3
• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: Gert Vanthienen
• Created: 28/Oct/11 10:14
• Updated: 10/Mar/15 18:05
• Resolved: 10/Mar/15 18:05

Description

Some features include a <repository/> element to refer to another feature descriptor. For example: http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/camel/karaf/apache-camel/2.8.2/apache-camel-2.8.2-features.xml contains a reference to the CXF features descriptor.

For referring to the cxf feature, it already uses a version range [2.4, 2.6) and if you put the same version range on the repository element URL, it would just get resolved by Pax Url Maven support.

It would be good if the features service would first check for a matching features descriptor - if there's already a matching descriptor installed, it could just use the existing and skip/ignore the repository resolution.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: KARAF-2657 Support version range in feature <repository/>