Putting MC artifacts to our maven repo

[alesj]

What's the easiest way to push these new releases to our Maven2 repo?
The instructions here
- http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=MavenReleaseProcess
Suggest you do this:

Perform the release

Next run the perform step which will checkout the files from the tag, do a build, and deploy the generated artifacts.

mvn release:perform

The deployment is done to the local file system (a local checkout of the jboss maven2 repository), so you will need to commit the new files after they are deployed.

Note that the release process updates your project's pom.xml to change the <version> to the next version. You need to check this updated pom into cvs/SVN.

The thing is that I've done that, but than later on modified those files. :-(
Don't ask me why. :-)
But now I cannot run that again. Some mvn complain again.

Is there an easier way than plain hand copying from my local repo to fit our global repo?
What about these maven-metadata.xml files:
- http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/jboss-mdr/maven-metadata.xml
Who modifies those in the first place?

[adrian.brock]

"alesj" wrote:

The thing is that I've done that, but than later on modified those files. :-(
Don't ask me why. :-)
But now I cannot run that again. Some mvn complain again.

Surprisingly enough. :-)

You can't modify the files AFTERwards, the build/artifacts wouldn't be reproducable.

If you want to start again, delete the tag from SVN.

[alesj]

You can't modify the files AFTERwards, the build/artifacts wouldn't be reproducable.

If you want to start again, delete the tag from SVN.

What about if I push the one's that are in my local repo?
Since all the right versions are there.

[adrian.brock]

"alesj" wrote:

You can't modify the files AFTERwards, the build/artifacts wouldn't be reproducable.

If you want to start again, delete the tag from SVN.

What about if I push the one's that are in my local repo?
Since all the right versions are there.

If you can reproduce them I don't have a problem. They're not GA releases
so its not like we'll have to support them for very long. :-)

[alesj]

If you can reproduce them I don't have a problem. They're not GA releases
so its not like we'll have to support them for very long. :-)

What about those maven-metadata.xml* files?
Are they crucial for things to be in-synch?

[adrian.brock]

"alesj" wrote:

If you can reproduce them I don't have a problem. They're not GA releases
so its not like we'll have to support them for very long. :-)

What about those maven-metadata.xml* files?
Are they crucial for things to be in-synch?

No they just list what is in the repository and which is the current version.

If you edit them and don't know how to regenerate the checksums then
just delete the check sum file(s).

Its the binaries/poms that are important.

[dimitris]

Somewhat related, looking into https://svn.jboss.org/repos/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/jboss-common-core/maven-metadata.xml

a) I can see version 2.2.3.GA missing. Given this one was used by other components, I conclude the maven-metadata.xml is not necessary?
b) Anyone knows if ordering is important?
c) What's the meaning of v2.0.5.GA as it is recorded below?

After a quick search, I didn't much about the maven-metadata schema.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<metadata>
 <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>
 <version>2.0.5.GA</version>
 <versioning>
 <release>2.2.4.GA</release>
 <versions>
 <version>2.0.5.GA</version>
 <version>2.2.2.GA</version>
 <version>2.2.1.GA</version>
 <version>2.2.4.GA</version>
 </versions>
 <lastUpdated>20080328111223</lastUpdated>
 </versioning>
</metadata>

Another problem I noticed is the moment you are doing the 'mvn release:perform' you need to have checked all the versions of a component, in-order to get access to the maven-metadata.xml, so the new version is correctly added. That means a lot of garbage in your local filesystem, just to do a simple release.

[adrian.brock]

Dimitris,

Why are you asking questions about maven/build system on the MC forum? :-)

[dimitris]

I know, I piggybacked on the last answer, sorry :)

Moved here:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4140104#4140104