Bug 355507 – dev-java/maven-bin should automatically set itself as the default target for eselect-maven

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dean Matzkov 2011-02-19 02:17:50 UTC]

When installing dev-java/maven-bin for the first time, no symlink for the `mvn' command is created. Thus, the user has to manually set the active Maven version using eselect.

I think it should be set automatically by the ebuild.

Steps to reproduce:

# emerge -av dev-java/maven-bin:2.2
$ mvn -v
   bash: mvn: command not found
# eselect maven set mvn-2.2
$ mvn -v
   Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 13:16:01-0600)

[Comment 1 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:26:26 UTC]

Created attachment 270471 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-2.0.10.

patch for maven-bin-2.0.10. Patches for other versions will follow. 
This creates the /usr/bin/mvn symlink when maven-bin get installed. It should be noted that this does not update the symlink if a working symlink already exist at /usr/bin/mvn. User may update the symlink to the latest installed maven version via "eselect maven update".

[Comment 2 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:28:03 UTC]

Created attachment 270473 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-2.0.11

patch for maven-bin-2.0.11. Patches for other versions will follow. 
This creates the /usr/bin/mvn symlink when maven-bin get installed. It should be noted that this does not update the symlink if a working symlink already exist at /usr/bin/mvn. User may update the symlink to the latest installed maven version via "eselect maven update".

[Comment 3 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:29:26 UTC]

Created attachment 270475 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-2.1.0

[Comment 4 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:30:06 UTC]

Created attachment 270477 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-2.2.1

[Comment 5 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:30:43 UTC]

Created attachment 270479 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-3.0

[Comment 6 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:31:13 UTC]

Created attachment 270481 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-3.0.2

[Comment 7 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-19 06:31:46 UTC]

Created attachment 270483 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-3.0.3

[Comment 8 Kasun Gajasinghe 2011-04-22 13:57:37 UTC]

Created attachment 270869 [details, diff]
patch for maven-bin-2.0.10

patch for maven-bin-2.0.10. In addition to the use of 'eselect', This includes a fix for a report in the bug 310331 by Serkan about another symlink issue which is related to this bug.
Added app-admin/eselect-maven as a RDEPEND.

[Comment 9 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) 2011-12-14 16:04:57 UTC]

Fixed in:

*maven-bin-3.0.3-r1 (14 Dec 2011)
*maven-bin-2.2.1-r1 (14 Dec 2011)
*maven-bin-2.1.0-r1 (14 Dec 2011)
*maven-bin-2.0.11-r1 (14 Dec 2011)
*maven-bin-1.1-r2 (14 Dec 2011)
*maven-bin-1.0.2-r2 (14 Dec 2011)

Thanks for the report and patches.