Kirby Files wrote:
Nik wrote on 04/28/2009 02:03 AM:
I have a number of external JAR files that my project relies on. These
jars are not in any Ivy repositories that I am aware of - I just
download them.
I'm trying to publish/install them into my local Ivy repository, and I'm
getting errors.
My understanding is that <ivy:deliver> generates the repo metadata for
an artifact. Yet I keep getting errors telling me that Ivy can't find
the metadata in my cache, or in a repository.
I use ivy:install for this purpose, where the from resolver is a local
filesystem with a simple [artifact]-[revision].[type] pattern, and the
to resolver is an SFTP or NFS-based resolver:
<ivy:install settingsRef="masergy.settings" organisation="${org}"
module="${module}" revision="${rev}" type="jar"
from="${localjar.resolver}" to="${to.resolver}" />
For anyone else following this thread, I've also just discovered the
package resolver. If you are looking for a way to replicate a build
environment reliably without having to ship these downloaded jars
yourself, then the package resolver looks like a nice solution.
I'm currently setting all this up for a CI environment, so installing
previously downloaded jars into the repo as per Kirby's response seems
the most reliable solution for me. :o)
But I am also looking to add an Ivy file to an Open-Source project I
contribute to, and the package resolver looks like the better solution
for that.
Cheers!
Nik
