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

[Jonathan Chen]

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.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>