MavenUpdate

Maven Update

There was a lot of work to do to update the version of Maven in Fedora. A build in non-bootstrap mode is currently building.

Maven 2.0.8

While this version of Maven is old, it is newer than what we had (2.0.4) and should be ready in time for Fedora 12. The main tracker bug is bug 429551. Be sure to file any issues that are a part of this work as blockers of that bug.

In order to build some of the packages below that are higher up the dependency chain, you will need some of the packages lower on the dependency chain. If a simple yum --enablerepo=rawhide install of the packages you need doesn't work, you can try the repository of just-built packages, adjusting for your architecture as appropriate:

[koji]
name=Fedora 12 - i386
baseurl=http://koji.fedoraproject.org/static-repos/dist-f12-build-current/i386
enabled=0

and then use yum --enablerepo=koji install

Packages that are done

The following list ordering is important. Many of the below are "Pre-Review Requests". We should just turn them into full review requests. The Java packaging guidelines and regular packaging guidelines must be followed.

• maven2-common-poms (update) -- ready to be built (overholt, 2009-08-18) built
• maven-wagon (update) built
• saxpath (new package) build
• backport-util-concurrent (new package) built
• aqute-bndlib (new package) built
• pmd (pom file added) built
• plexus-classworlds (new package, pre-review already imported to CVS, full review request) built
• plexus-utils (update) built
• plexus-containers (up for review, old pre-review request) build
• modello (update) build
• itext (add POM; maven-doxia needs this patch, pom file) built
• plexus-cdc build
• plexus-maven-plugin (tagged,build)
• plexus-xmlrpc (no work needed)
• plexus-cli (old pre-review request) built
• plexus-digest (old pre-review request) built
• dumbster build
• plexus-mail-sender (old pre-review request) built
• plexus-velocity built
• directory-naming build
• jakarta-commons-jxpath (new package) (build)
• jakarta-commons-configuration build
• jakarta-commons-dbcp (update) build
• pre-review request easymock (1.x) (build)
• javacvs (see bug 500259#c3; this package: netbeans-ide11 contains the same JAR and I think we'll just need to add the POM file to it (assuming API stability))

maven2 was built in koji in bootstrap mode

• maven-surefire (update to 2.3) built
• plexus-resources (old pre-review request) (new package) built
• plexus-naming (old pre-review request new package) built
• plexus-registry (old pre-review request, new package) build
• maven2-plugin-shade (old pre-review request (new package) (build)
• maven-plugins-tools (new package, old pre-review request) (build)
• maven-enforcer-rule-api (new package old pre-review request) (build)
• maven-archiver (new package old pre-review request) (build)
• maven-doxia (changes in CVS. needs tagging and building) (needed some XmlTo* classes resurrected from iText 1.4; proposed patch to iText, upstream tracker for iText patch, upstream tracker for iText + Doxia) build
• maven-shared (update done in CVS) build
• maven-scm (update done in CVS (also javacvs -> netbeans-ide11 change) and tagged) built
• maven-embedder (new package old pre-review request) built
• maven-doxia-sitetools (new package, old pre-review request) built

Maven is built in non-bootstrap mode. Yay!

Maven 2.2.1

This is the most recent version of Maven (as of 2009-08-21). In order to simplify things, we have discussed the idea of splitting the Maven plugins into individual SRPMs. This will be a lot of initial work but will pay off by reducing long-term maintenance. A group of us (dbhole, akurtakov, overholt) has plans to tackle this for Fedora 13. We will gladly welcome any other interested parties.