[fedora-java] mvn-jpp problems

[Jerry James]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Mary Ellen Foster<mef at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm currently trying to resurrect my efforts to package JabRef and its
> dependencies, and I'm finding something that used to build on F10
> (i386) is now no longer building on my current F11 (x86_64) box. I'm
> not sure which of those two differences is relevant...
>
> Anyway, the package is http://spin.sourceforge.net/, and the errors
> I'm currently getting look like this:

Oh, no, yet another package named "spin"!  You should be aware of this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467814
http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/spin/

> % mvn-jpp install
> /usr/lib/jvm/java
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Building Spin
> [INFO]    task-segment: [install]
> [INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [WARNING] Skipping non filebased repository
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 in full offline mode
> [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
>
>
> Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin
>
> Reason: Error getting POM for
> 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin' from the repository:
> Failed to resolve artifact, possibly due to a repository list that is
> not appropriately equipped for this artifact's metadata.
>  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:pom:2.4.3
>
> from the specified remote repositories:
>  __jpp_repo__ (file:///usr/share/maven2/repository),
>  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
>
>
> I do have mvn2-plugin-surefire installed, so I'm not sure what's going
> on here. The srpms for this and its (not-yet-in-Fedora) dependency
> cglib are here:
>    http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/srpms/
>
> I know nothing about Maven -- does anyone have an idea what's going on here?

You are missing BuildRequires on maven2-plugin-resources,
maven2-plugin-jar, and maven2-plugin-install.  Once I added those, the
package built for me.

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/