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Maven Update

There is a lot of work to do to update the version of Maven in Fedora.

Maven 2.0.8

While this version of Maven is old, it is newer than what we have (2.0.4) and can hopefully be readied 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 need work

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 is built in koji in bootstrap mode

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.