Bug 1897375

Summary:	maven latest upgrade introduced hard dependency on /etc/java/maven.conf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Tuomo Soini <tis>
Component:	maven-3.6-module	Assignee:	Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Martin Kyral <mkyral>
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Version:	8.3	CC:	jorton, mizdebsk, mkyral, pasik, pasteur
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Description Tuomo Soini 2020-11-12 21:45:46 UTC

Description of problem:

maven:3.6 maven package upgrade removed dependency on javapackage-tools but accidentally test for exitence of /etc/java/maven.conf was removed and now maven-lib actually requires /etc/java/maven.conf.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.6.2-5.module+el8.3.0+6804+157bd82e

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

/usr/share/maven/bin/mvn: line 36: /etc/java/maven.conf: No such file or directory

Expected results:

/usr/share/maven/bin/mvn to work...

Additional info:

https://git.centos.org/rpms/maven/c/e0174bfb093f71c290478be97a193f5eb233ffc5?branch=c8-stream-3.6

This part of the change causes hard dependency on /etc/java/maven.conf

- +  if [ -f /etc/java/maven.conf ] ; then
+ +  . /etc/java/maven.conf
- +    . /etc/java/maven.conf
- +  fi 

Either this should be reverted or Necessary require is needed in maven-lib package. If that's the fix you want it would be:

Requires: maven-jdk-binding = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}

Or

Requires: /etc/java/maven.conf

Comment 1 Mikolaj Izdebski 2020-11-18 08:20:11 UTC

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I can reproduce the issue with:
# podman run -it registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8
# dnf -y module enable maven:3.6
# dnf -y install maven-lib
# /usr/share/maven/bin/mvn -v
/usr/share/maven/bin/mvn: line 36: /etc/java/maven.conf: No such file or directory

However, as maven-lib description says, it is expected to be used as a library only:
# rpm -qi maven-lib
Description: Core part of Apache Maven that can be used as a library.

Also, maven-lib does not provide mvn command in /usr/bin either, and we have not considered using it the above way as a valid use case for maven-lib.
For use of Maven from command-line, the full maven package should be insalled.
We should move /usr/share/maven/bin/mvn script from maven-lib to maven to make this more obvious.
And I can confirm that installing full maven with "dnf install maven" fixes the above issue with missing config file.

I will keep this bug open for moving the internal mvn shell script /usr/share/maven/bin/mvn from maven-lib to maven package.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:56:32 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (maven:3.6 bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1897