----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serge Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: ibiblio central repository


> At 14:13 01.04.2004, you wrote:
>
> >It's interesting to use maven-proxy for private company repos. If you
want
> >to create a public repo, it's preferrable to put in it only yours jars if
> >you don't use a rsync with ibiblio. http://www.bluesunrise.com/maven used
by
> >the jetspeed project is an example of a bad repository.
>
> Am I understanding this right : it's a bad repository because it
duplicates
> the content without sync ? I myself want to learn to do this right, so
> that's why I'm asking all these newbie questions :)

Yes, and it deploy some apache jars (like jetspeed) but the official repo
for apache jars is IBiblio.
Jetspeed isn't a bluesunrise project but an apache project.

>
> >Some projects doesn't use the SNAPSHOT extension and put their files on a
> >repo but this jars doesn't the a complete release(beta, rc, final). If
you
> >don't use the snapshot extension and you put a jar in a repo with another
> >extension (for example -dev), the jar file will be download one times by
> >users, and only one. If the jar file change, it will be never
re-downloaded
> >by maven because it's in local repo of users and it isn't a snapshot.
>
> Yep I'm aware of that. I saw that others use dates coded such as 20040401,
> maybe that's a better way to use snapshots if one wants to avoid breaking
> the build all the time ?
>
> >The torque plugin can be put (snapshot and final version) in ibiblio
> >directly by the torque team (it's the same for all apache projects) .
>
> I perfectly understand that the will is to have a central repository much
> in the same way as Debian has. But in order to get there, for practical
> reasons, people need intermediate repositories to work on a day-to-day
> basis (like the "right away" example I was giving). What would be great is

> to have a way to create an entry in a "personal" repository, and then use
a
> maven plugin to submit it for inclusion into the ibiblio repository. So
> basically what I would do is :
>
> 1. insert the entry into my "personal repository", maven jar:deploy
>
> 2. send a submission for my JAR to the central repository maven jar:submit
>
> 3. remove the jar from my "personal repository" once it has been inserted
> into ibiblio : maven jar:sync or something.
>
> Is this already available ? As I said, I'm a newcomer eager to learn,
sorry
> if this is the twentieth time this is answered, just point me to an
> existing reply would do the tick :)

1. yes or repository:copy-jar (if you define the maven.repo.central)
2. this goal doesn't exists but it's a good idea.
3.Doesn't exists. You can also delete it.

Emmanuel


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