Hi everyone - I appreciate any help that might be offered on this topic. I have researched this on google and have not been able to find an answer, so I'm hoping you guys can throw something out there to help, or point to a place I missed on the web that contains the correct information.
I have a need for people to be able to execute a maven build against my project from source that is copied onto their machine. For government security reasons, the machine does not have internet access, and the people executing the build have no maven expertise. I include a copy of my repository within the zip file that contains the source code. I include a settings.xml file that tells maven to execute in offline mode, and points to a local repository. I then give the end users a single command that they execute from their shell, and everything works... except for one problem. The localRepository I specify in settings.xml does not seem to accept a relative path. The relative path to the local repo I've sent them will always remain the same. Alternatively to figuring out the relative path in the settings file I point them to, I am quite content to change what I'm doing on the command line, as in mvn -o -Dmaven.local-repo=foo/bar/repository. However, from what I've seen maven.local-repo no longer works. The goal is to give these guys a zip of my source, which includes my repository (thanks to the assembly plugin), and have them unzip and be able to run with a single command line. Again, they have no local repo and no internet access. One final point. If I use an absolute path to the repository in settings.xml, everything works great. Any advice is appreciated, and thank you for your time. Jeremy
