In addition to upstream Apache Maven maven package provides some Fedora-specific modifications that are useful for buidling RPM packages. Those include mvn-rpmbuild and mvn-local scripts as well as Fedora-specific patches. Maven maintainers in Fedora decided to split Fedora specific parts from upstream Maven. Since Fedora 19 maven package will be divided into 2 parts: 1. maven. This package will contain upstream Maven without any modifications or with absolutely minimal modifications. This package will provide /usr/bin/mvn executable. 2. maven-local. This package will contain Fedora-specific extensions for Maven such as local resolver allowing to build RPM packages from artifact available in the system instead of downloading it from central repository. This package will provide /usr/bin/mvn-local and /usr/bin/mvn-rpmbuild executables. Packages in Fedora Rawhide that use mvn-rpmbuild during build will need to start requiring maven-local instead of maven. Packages that use mvn-rpmbuild but don't have "BuildRequires: maven-local" will likely fail to build. I will consider automatically migrating all Java packages from maven to maven-local during a mass-rebuild (this will be announced later). Packages in older Fedoras (17 and 18) can also start build-requiring maven-local instead of maven, but that's not obligatory. It's just a simplification for packagers that want to share one spec file between multiple Fedora releases. Besides that internal implementation of mvn-rpmbuild and mvn-local scripts is going to change soon. Only implementation was changed, public interface is the same, so there should be no need for any changes in packages that use mvn-rpmbuild. I have tested the new mvn-rpmbuild script by rebuilding many major Java packages, but undiscovered bugs are possible. Any bugs related to new implementation of mvn-local and mvn-rpmbuild scripts should be reported against maven-local package (component in Bugzilla: javapackages-tools). We'll try to resolve them quickly. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Fedora Maven maintainer -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
