Re: Proposal for a centralized Eclipse update manager site for Apache projects/software

2005-05-04 Thread Brett Porter
On 5/5/05, Dion Gillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you see the Eclipse version number (not the artifact version) > fitting in? I was under the impression this would be captured within the archive itself. But should it need to be part of the path, it is probably sensible to make it part

Re: Proposal for a centralized Eclipse update manager site for Apache projects/software

2005-05-04 Thread Brett Porter
> Btw, is there any rules that govern what a project > can drop or not drop into the respository? Anything otherwise distributable should be fine. As far as I'm concerned, the repository is still the right place for these - perhaps under /eclipse-plugins/ (or some more suitable name) instead of

Re: Proposal for a centralized Eclipse update manager site for Apache projects/software

2005-05-03 Thread Brett Porter
I echo David's sentiments on this. I'd be interested to know what is in the eclipse metadata you want to attach to the various artifacts in the repository, and whether any of it coincides with existing metadata formats in use here, such as the following for parts of jakarta commons: http://www.apa

Re: Maven2 support

2005-04-16 Thread Brett Porter
> I'm wondering if uploading pgp signatures is still somewhere > on the agenda. They are important for integrity checks of > the repository. I checked Steve's response, and don't see any indication in Ant or smartfrog that there is PGP support yet... as far as I know there is not. It defini

Re: Maven2 support

2005-04-16 Thread Brett Porter
> will do. Where is the upload process documented? http://maven.apache.org/reference/repository-upload.html Cheers, Brett

Re: Maven2 support

2005-04-14 Thread Brett Porter
> I note the maven2 .md5 files are binary. I think I prefer hex, as it > is easier to manually verify. I ended up checking the md5 sum off the > maven1 files. That's a bug in the m1->m2 repository converter. I'll check it out. > Here is what I'd like > -a 'dotted' project to test that logic > -so

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Porter
Sorry, I meant: http.proxyHost, http.proxyPort and counterparts as standard names. - Brett On Apr 12, 2005 2:09 AM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2005 4:39 PM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you needed that, couldn't the

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Porter
> you know, I wonder if we can't create a defacto place in the Java1.4 > preferences world for storing proxy information across apps. There is > something for applets, but nothing for apps in general. > > Imagine a System node "org.apache.jakarta.proxy" that would be read by > everything that care

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Porter
> There is no good solution here. Really. sure - I understand that. All I am trying to think of is something as secure as your proposal, but less intrusive to the user. Or at least a decent way to aid them with tools. Really, I've been in favour of using bouncycastle and PGP for a long time, so

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Porter
> the smartfrog solution is brute force unforgiving: you must declare > the SHA1 or MD5 value in a download Right... I'm sure users wanting security will put up with a certain level of pain. I'm still not sure how you securely publish the value initially (though this certainly prevents later tampe

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Porter
(I'm assuming you meant to reply to all by the content - it happens frequently with other gmail users - sorry if I'm out of place repeating your message) > I'd probably retain my own in the Ant codebase, but SmartFrog could > take wagon -as long as our signing it doesnt break it (smartfrog runs >

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Porter
> Ant is still debating whether or not to EOL 1.2 support, following > Sun's lead. I hadnt been over enthused about -and certainly against > dropping 1.3 support given how some platforms (e.g. FreeBSD) are still > 1.3 only. right... so if we were to roll back the API and the lightweight HTTP provi

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-10 Thread Brett Porter
> planetapache.org knows everything :) Yes, I just caught your post :) > This is cool. > -what is the local cache name/layout? Configurable, defaults to ~/.m2/repository and uses the "default" layout, which is the new one. > > I'll add maven2 lib support to ant CVS_HEAD and make it the default

Re: long project names & repositories

2005-04-09 Thread Brett Porter
> 1. I see that a Maven2 alpha is out: is it still using the Maven1 > repository structure? News travels fast... I was going to post about that here this morning :) New repository: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/ m2 can use the m1 structure, but by default it uses a new one. I believe it is almos

Re: SSH back when?

2005-03-29 Thread Brett Porter
The sync was no longer working due to the www.apache.org name moving. I've updated it to reference minotaur and am rerunning it now - expect them there within the hour. Normally alerts would come to this list, but it was moved to a private address on request due to some extra noise mails which we

Re: Synchronization report for Apache Software Foundation

2005-02-07 Thread Brett Porter
> +1 to only email when a change. I'm sure Carlos will get to it soon. Sorry for the noise. > Unsure why, but I'm not seeing a To: address for it in gmail, just a > Reply-To:. My guess is that the recipients are all BCC'd. Most mail clients say something like "To: Undisclosed recipients". This

repository thoughts

2005-01-23 Thread Brett Porter
Hi folks, I've put up basically a TODO list from recent discussions. Sorry it took so long. http://wiki.apache.org/ASFRepository/BrettPorter Did I miss anything? I'd hope to integrate this more with the rest of the wiki and clean up over time. Cheers, Brett

Re: repo security

2005-01-13 Thread Brett Porter
ult to the most secure setting. Similar to the new version of yum, it > won't connect to yum repositories unless you import keys from the > repositories, or turn off key verification - secure by default. > > Tim > > -----Original Message- > From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMA

Re: repo security

2005-01-13 Thread Brett Porter
> Would we be talking about "gpg --armor --output > commons-foo-1.2.jar.md5.asc --detach-sig commons-foo-1.2.jar". Or, is > there some other mechanism we would need to go through? This is what I'd intended to do in Wagon using Bouncycastle. And as Steve mentions, it can be at the users discretion:

Re: repo security

2005-01-12 Thread Brett Porter
Hi Steve, I'd like to do whatever we can to get better security on this stuff. I just need to get my head around what JAR signing provides in comparison to key signing, and what impact it might have on existing code. I'll read up on it. Is there a rough timeframe on the next Ant release so we can

Re: Where to publish Xalan code on http://www.apache.org/dist (fwd)

2005-01-12 Thread Brett Porter
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:53:04 -0500, Mark R. Diggory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I was discussing in the jakarta-general list earlier. There are a > number of projects with mavan project properties setup with the > following parameter. > > maven.repo.remote=http://www.apache.org/dist/java-repos

Re: Where to publish Xalan code on http://www.apache.org/dist (fwd)

2005-01-12 Thread Brett Porter
> Clearly there is vague definition here if this symlink can point at a > release like this. Yes, this is exactly the problem. Theoretical intention aside, all SNAPSHOT means in practice now is that if you depend on it, Maven will always check for something newer. What newer means is at the discre

Re: Where to publish Xalan code on http://www.apache.org/dist (fwd)

2005-01-11 Thread Brett Porter
te: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Brett Porter wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:39:54 +1100 > > From: Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Where to publish Xalan code on http://www.apache.org/dist > > (fwd) > >

Re: Where to publish Xalan code on http://www.apache.org/dist (fwd)

2005-01-11 Thread Brett Porter
Henk, My bad. I copied it to the wrong location. I fixed the JARs, forgot the POMs and will remove them next time I have SSH access. - Brett On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:44 +0100 (MET), Henk P. Penning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Mark R. Diggory wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 11 Ja

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:13 -0500, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is Maven willing to provide suitable support for Ant to use it? I just want > to make sure that this is not the Maven repository, but is THE repository. > Tool-agnostic. Yes - I've already discussed this and Steve and

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
> Why not something like: > > ... > > > > > > In Maven 1.0, there is a maven.repo.remote property that allows you to select what repositories to search on a per-project basis. Maven 1.1 wil

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
> I'll be the Ant rep. Great, thanks. > I am co-author of the (still stabilising) Ant task; it'd yeah, I've got to 50 mail threads sitting flagged in gmail to read one day, as this is about the extent of what I know about it :) (after you introduced it to repository@ last year) > 1. security.

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
putting repository@ back on the list - gmail tends to drop lists unless you reply to all (hope this is what you intended). > Seems a reasonable first step. However it seems a little fragile if a > project changes artifact names or splits an existing artifact. e.g. if > commons-jelly splits into je

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
> Take the commons-jelly/ directories on ibiblio and place them in a > similar structure as an example. org/apache/commons/jelly/commons-jelly/1.0/commons-jelly-1.0.jar[.md5|.asc], etc org/apache/commons/jelly/commons-jelly-tags-ant/1.0/commons-jelly-1.0.jar org/apache/commons/jelly/commons-jelly

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
> Ant is adding a task so that providers can plug into it, and Wagon can > continue to be used in Ant. Absolutely - all I meant was that Wagon maintaining its own Ant task was probably not necessary given that. Wagon can plugin in to that. > If we splinter implementations, the repository effort w

Re: Maven and repository@apache.org

2005-01-05 Thread Brett Porter
Hi, Firstly, can I check who is still actively involved here other than Nicola, Mark and myself? Continuing on what was started in this thread: > I'd add that to use a common repository, there needs an implementation > for all projects to use. It's easy, correct and resonable to think that > it

Re: [java-repository] licenses update + unreleased components]

2004-12-20 Thread Brett Porter
> 1.) just delete any interim builds (they are already archived on > archive.apache.org) > > 2.) delete and any snapshot symlinks referring to them. > > 3.) delete and sanpshot-version files referring to an interim build. +1 to these with some questions and additions: 4) document this as policy

md5 format decision

2004-10-12 Thread Brett Porter
Hi, Was there a final decision made to change the format of md5's to: d1dcb0fbee884bb855bb327b8190af36 commons-collections-3.1.jar ie, md5 hash, 1 space, filename If so, I'd like to drop the change into Maven 1.1. Will this cause any problems for any scripts running on ASF boxes? Cheers, Bret

Re: old JAR files changed in java-repository

2004-09-29 Thread Brett Porter
> I suspect this is the same issue encountered earlier in the month where > Dion Gillard had updated/published some jars using maven. At the same > point in time some modifications occurred int he directory which we > could not identify the origin of. Maven was previously setting some funny permis

Re: Subversive Repository

2004-09-29 Thread Brett Porter
Hi Mark, Interesting idea. Doing this always makes me feel a little uneasy, though given the reasons you've listed I can't think of any problems other than a gut feel. I guess the reason for that is that JARs really shouldn't be changed once published. The exception is snapshots (not even timesta

Re: old JAR files changed in java-repository

2004-09-29 Thread Brett Porter
aired_repo/commons-jelly/jars/ (you can obviously grab these directly on cvs.apache.org) I'd really appreciate you looking into this, so that the corrupted jars don't spread. I still have no idea how the jars actually got changed... weird. Thanks, Brett On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:38:00 +1000,

old JAR files changed in java-repository

2004-09-28 Thread Brett Porter
I tried to build maven 1.0 clean today and found out that on Sep 2, commons-jelly and a few of its tag libs had changed on ibiblio. These were already released jars that changed size. I checked around and discovered the source of the change seems to be java-repository at Apache. Any ideas how this

Re: any ideas why beanutils 1.7.0 jars can't be downloaded by maven?

2004-08-03 Thread Brett Porter
I don't see it on ibiblio (beanutils-core and beanutils-collections are there, but beanutils itself is not). Do you have the correct permissions on java-repository? - Brett On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:04:51 +0100, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i uploaded the jars from the beanutil

Re: betwixt 0.5 release jars

2004-06-30 Thread Brett Porter
I definitely use thunderbird from home... but I can't use it at work because I need the outlook calendar, etc. I'm certainly tempted though :) - Brett On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:52:42 +0200, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brett Porter wrote: > >

RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars

2004-06-29 Thread Brett Porter
Apologies for continually sending in HTML format BTW - Outlook at work insists on "deciding the best format" for me despite setting the email address to plain text only. I'll resubscribe from a different email address and use webmail :) - Brett -Original Message----- From: Bre

RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars

2004-06-29 Thread Brett Porter
Title: RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars Thanks for clarifying that Mark - makes sense. While Maven uploads directly, I make a habit of doing it on a machine with a fast connection so shouldn't have a problem with our releases, however this could still be a concern. Are there any filenames that

RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars

2004-06-28 Thread Brett Porter
Title: RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars > i'm a little sensitive to the needs for supervision at the moment  > (after being strongly reminded on this list before by members > who know  > about these issues). the jar's i've posted have been approved for  > release. i don't really want to have

RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars

2004-06-27 Thread Brett Porter
Title: RE: betwixt 0.5 release jars Hi Robert, Do you build the final release with Maven or Ant? If it is Maven, the commons build would need to be changed to automate this, but it's pretty easy. Change: /www/jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons To: www.apache.org /www/www.apache.or

RE: Proposals

2003-11-07 Thread Brett Porter
Title: RE: Proposals I imagine: .../httpd/dists/httpd-2.0.45-src.zip .../httpd/dists/httpd-2.0.45-src.tar.gz .../httpd/dists/httpd-2.0.45-bin-solaris.tar.gz .../httpd/dists/httpd-2.0.45-bin-linux.tar.gz So I guess type != ext, which makes sense. I would prefer, for example: .../so/mod_

RE: Proposals

2003-11-07 Thread Brett Porter
Title: RE: Proposals Maven's is http:s/[-][-]. Which should cover all platforms (as artifact_type can be dll, jar, maven-plugin, doc, etc). This also means http://repo.apache.org/org.apache.xerces can be the single place to download Xerces in C++, Java, cobol, whatever. I imagined the