Hi folks, It's been a while. I am giving a shot to update our tuxguitar package from 1.2 to the recent 1.3. The new release comes with a build system switch from ant to maven. I do not have much experience with maven, so I tried to follow the packaging instructions [1] which I found quite useful. I managed to build the package from source, but I still have 4 problems: 1- tuxguitar-1.3 has an itext5 dependency, but we only ship itext2 in Fedora. I tried to disable the tuxguitar-pdf plugin (which uses itext) by various combinations of %pom_remove_dep, %pom_remove_plugin, %pom_disable_module. The following takes me a couple steps further %pom_remove_dep -r com.itextpdf:itextpdf %pom_remove_dep -r com.itextpdf.tool:xmlworker but I end up getting: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project tuxguitar-pdf: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.herac.tuxguitar:tuxguitar-pdf:jar:1.3.0: The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.itextpdf:itextpdf:jar:SYSTEM, com.itextpdf.tool:xmlworker:jar:SYSTEM: Cannot access swt-repo (https://swt-repo.googlecode.com/svn/repo/) in offline mode and the artifact com.itextpdf:itextpdf:jar:SYSTEM has not been downloaded from it before. -> [Help 1] So, I worked around by patching the pom.xml file and removed the dependency by hand. I am pretty sure there is a better way of doing this with the maven macros. 2- When the package is built with %mvn_build and installed with %mvn_install the jar files get installed into /usr/share/java/tuxguitar/. But looking at the launcher script, the application expects the jar files to be in /usr/share/tuxguitar/. Is there a way to tell maven to install the jar files there instead (these are application jars, not shared libraries) ? 3- I manually moved the jar files into /usr/share/tuxguitar/. The launcher calls the entry point in tuxguitar.jar. But this jar doesn't find the other jars, for example the tuxguitar-editor-utils.jar, and the application doesn't launch. I can add this jar file and the other 15 jar files to the CLASSPATH in the lancher script, but I am not sure this is the right way. I didn't have to do this with ant. With ant, the tuxguitar.jar somehow knew about the other jars. How can we fix this? 4- There are a bunch of supplementary files (.desktop file, icons, mime xmls, the launcher script etc) which are listed in the main pom.xml file, but %mvn_install doesn't install them. I had to copy them manually to the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT. Is there a way to do this with better? My current work is at https://oget.fedorapeople.org/tuxguitar/tuxguitar.spec https://oget.fedorapeople.org/tuxguitar/tuxguitar-1.3.0-0.fc23.src.rpm Note that I had to remove some SF2, EXE and DLL files from the source tarball, as their license situations were unclear. I would be happy if someone knowledgeable with maven could take a look and give me some clues. Best, Orcan [1] https://fedorahosted.org/released/javapackages/doc/#maven -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
