Source bundle needs unincluded parent project to build
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Key: HTTPCORE-184
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-184
Project: HttpComponents HttpCore
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HttpCore
Affects Versions: 4.0-beta3
Reporter: Chris Hubick
Fix For: 4.0
I could be missing something, but it appears the httpcore (and httpclient)
source bundle build depends on a parent Maven project which isn't included in
the bundle.
Given a Maven install with the required plugins, it should be possible to build
binaries from the source distribution in an offline situation, entirely using
files found in the source bundle.
I am trying to write RPM packages for httpcore and httpclient. This is done by
creating a spec file which, given to the rpmbuild tool with the source bundle,
will build it in a temp directory and generate (S)RPM packages containing the
source and binaries. These packages are designed to be self contained - that
is, besides the declared project dependencies, they should contain all the
files needed to rebuild the generated source package into the binary package.
The httpcore maven pom references the parent project using a path to the parent
directory, which would be outside the distributed source package, and thus
outside the temp directory used by rpmbuild. This is problematic.
I was going to work around this situation by ignoring the default distributed
source bundles for httpcore/httpclient, and just create my own bundle of the
whole parent and child project source directly out of svn, and having a single
spec file to build the whole thing, with sub-packages for each of core/client -
this would have the RPM's nicely parallel the Maven structure. The problem
here is that core and client exist in separate svn folders, and as near as I
can tell, you don't actually branch/tag the parent project info. This is
problematic.
I don't quite know what to suggest here. The simplest solution would perhaps
be to have the httpcore bundle include the parent project folder and pom, with
core as a subdir of that - meaning the core dist actually includes the core and
the parent. But that would mean you have files in that bundle which can't be
recreated from SVN tags. You could add branches/tags/trunk under the parent
project dir in SVN to fix that though. Or something?
Thanks for your consideration.
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