Hi James
actually we had a look at the maven website before posting.
What we made of it was that using maven in offline mode only affects the synchronization of the local jar repository with the remote one (the test still fails in offline mode for that matter).
As far as the proxy is concerned our main issue still is building offline.
So why not fix the test to make it work independent of online/offline/proxy settings? We think it's possible as mentioned in our original posting. Besides we think it's a good think to reduce dependencies to external ressources for a regular compile-test-package-build.
IMHO the way it works right now might even scare people off.
Steffen and Kristian
James Strachan wrote:
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 04:12 pm, Kristian Koehler wrote:
Hi
we have a problem when running the tests for the core module.
The org.apache.geronimo.deployment.repository.DownloadTest fails when being executed offline or from behind a firewall. Since the VM can't establish a connection to the remote URL (http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/) the test fails causing the complete build to fail as well. Which means that currently only compilation and testing is run. Building a distribution requires local hacking (which is a bit annoying).
This sounds like standard Maven stuff.
Firstly you can use maven in offline mode (via the -o option or putting maven.mode.online=false in your build.properties (home dir or project dir).
Also you can use Maven behind firewalls by setting the HTTP proxy settings (again in your build.properties file). All this is documented on the maven site...
http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html#Using%20Proxies
I'd highly recommend a surf around the Maven website - its packaged with useful information.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
