Re: Maven and Gentoo

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Loughran
Alistair Bush wrote: After browsing thru the conversation relating to Maven and Fedora I thought I would put in the Gentoo Linux's perspective. (snip) Sadly we only have support for ant presently. I wouldnt say sadly :) To accomplish this we had to implement some funky build.xml rewri

Re: Maven and Gentoo

2006-12-13 Thread Alistair Bush
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 10:16 pm, Carlos Sanchez wrote: > On 12/13/06, Alistair Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a ebuild is executed in a sandbox all attempts to access directories > > like ~/.mvn will result in the build failing majorly. There is therefore > > no practicial way that

Re: Maven and Gentoo

2006-12-13 Thread Brett Porter
or use --settings to provide alternate configuration. We've been over the gentoo discussion before - you might like to search the archives, or get in touch with the java gentoo folks that brought it up. As a non-user, I'm basically in the same boat as with Fedora (though I'm a little more f

Re: Maven and Gentoo

2006-12-13 Thread Carlos Sanchez
On 12/13/06, Alistair Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a ebuild is executed in a sandbox all attempts to access directories like ~/.mvn will result in the build failing majorly. There is therefore no practicial way that we (Gentoo) can implement a maven repository that is common and available

Maven and Gentoo

2006-12-13 Thread Alistair Bush
After browsing thru the conversation relating to Maven and Fedora I thought I would put in the Gentoo Linux's perspective. Firstly just as a background to gentoo. Gentoo is a source based linux distro in which packages are compiled within a highly structured bash script (ebuild). These ebuilds