[NPANDAY-410] Attempt to install NPanday.Model.Pom to Global Assembly Cache fails the NPanday build without administrative access

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0-incubating
• Component/s: Maven Plugins
• Labels: mono

Environment

$ mvn -v
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (rdebian-4)
Java version: 1.6.0_24
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.35-28-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"

• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: John Robert Fallows
• Created: 19/Apr/11 21:54
• Updated: 02/May/12 04:45
• Resolved: 06/Dec/11 03:57

Description

While building the NPanday.Model.Pom project on Linux, the following error is shown and the NPanday build fails.

Failure adding assembly /home/jfallows/Workspaces/npanday-trunk/dotnet/assemblies/NPanday.Model.Pom/target/NPanday.Model.Pom.dll to the cache: gac directories could not be created, possibly permission issues.

This error makes sense because the GAC in /usr/lib/mono/gac is owned by root so a normal user would not have write access.

Other versions of NPanday.Model.Pom appear to be present in ~/.m2/uac/gac_msil. For example:

  $ ls -l ~/.m2/uac/gac_msil/NPanday.Model.Pom

  drwxr-xr-x 2 jfallows jfallows 4096 2011-04-12 16:41 1.2.1__npanday.model

Would it be reasonable to install the NPanday.Model.Pom.dll to the same location during the NPanday trunk build?