sysutils/apache-mesos: Enable Java bindings request for review

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 12:39, James Wright
<james.wright at digital-chaos.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 20/06/2020 01:16, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 10:01, James Wright
> > <james.wright at digital-chaos.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 19/06/2020 22:37, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 07:14, James Wright
> >>> <james.wright at digital-chaos.com> wrote:
> >>> [..]
> >>>>      One specific area of concern is dealing with the Maven dependencies
> >>>> fetched mid-way through the build phase. I thought I had a solution
> >>>> utilizing
> >>>> the maven dependency plugin "go-offline" goal in the fetch phase and
> >>>> providing a skeleton POM to describe the dependencies required. However,
> >>>> there
> >>>> is a question mark over where these dependencies should be downloaded
> >>>> during the fetch phase;
> >>> One possible way to do this is to provide an offline maven repository
> >>> that has all the required dependencies pre-fetched. The pre-warmed
> >>> repo is static, and can be retrieved and extracted during the
> >>> fetch-phase. Your maven build can then specify
> >>> "-Dmaven.repo.local=${WRKDIR}/local-repo".
> >>>
> >>> The java/eclipse port uses this strategy.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers.
> >>> --
> >>> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
> >> I have seen that method used in some Java ports, but thought it would be
> >> better to
> >> download the dependencies from the offical maven repo directly, rather
> >> than a
> >> bundled tarball hosted on a personal/private repo which seems a less
> >> reliable source?
> > Doing so violates the ports-build requirement that access to the 'Net
> > is only permitted during the fetch-phase.
>
> Not in this case, all dependencies are downloaded during the fetch phase
> by invoking
> maven dependency:go-offline goal to prefetch everything required into the
> local repo before the build phase.

Won't your distinfo file be amazingly large?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>