> Thanks for the suggestion I will give it a try. However I would still > be interested to know the 'official' steps for the build, for example > if no existing binary package was available? Then you would need to compile Maven some other way (Maven distribution includes Ant build.xml script that can be used to bootstrap it). Once you have your working maven package you can rebuild it without bootstrapping. Another (easier) option would be using binaries provided by upstream. Just package them and use to properly rebuild maven from sources. Mikolaj -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel