Using relative path can have some surprises, so I would avoid it
whenever possible. Especially on CI there is usually an (absolute)
workspace path available.
Technically the JVM will transform a relative path into an absolute one
by using the currents process working directory but "relative" might be
surprising on some filesystems/os depending on how the string is passed
to Java API.
Am 14.07.24 um 16:04 schrieb Romain Manni-Bucau:
Hi
Agree it should be absolute but there is no technical constraint -
ultimately it must be known how it resolves.
I know on ci it is common to use a relative path to avoid ci specific
internal path issues accross os/workers.
Le dim. 14 juil. 2024 à 09:52, Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> a
écrit :
Howdy
Yes, usually you do want it absolute.
The relative examples like "-Dmaven repo.local=../repo" you usually can
find in some examples or reproducers.
If local repo path relative, these will end up using different local
repositories (imagine some multi module build):
$ mvn install
$ mvn -f submodule1/pom.xml install
$ cd submodule2 && mvn install
As it is evaluated at maven boot and relative would be calculated against
CWD based on invocation (plus, -f modifies it).
Hth
T
On Sun, Jul 14, 2024, 03:10 Timothy Stone <tst...@petmystone.com> wrote:
I help maintain Maven tooling for To Be Continuous, a GitLab CI/CD
catalog of pluggable pipeline configurations.
There is some discussion on the use of the JVM property,
`-Dmaven.repo.local=path' and the note on "Configuring your Local
Repository" (see [1]). Initially I was going to post to the user list,
but being a development question against the internals of Maven, I
thought this a better forum.
There is an admonition on the referenced page:
/Note: The local repository _must_ be an absolute path./ (emphasis mine)
Is this specifically noted for the use of the settings.localRepository
only or does the note extend to the use of the JVM property? I searched
the GitHub repo for a examples and found numerous uses of relative
paths, e.g., `../.repository` and others.
Seeking clarification as I could not immediately determine the internal
use of `maven.repo.local' property when set.
Thanks!
Tim
[1]
https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-configuring-maven.html#configuring-your-local-repository
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