[osmosis-dev] Building/Debian Package

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

The Debian package of Osmosis is really old and doesn't work on current
unstable any more. Since then Osmosis has switched build systems from ant
to gradle, so we basically have to set up the Debian package build from
scratch. I think it is important we get Osmosis in a current version back
into Debian and Ubuntu and want to help get this going.

Debian doesn't allow getting any binaries from external sources during
the building process. Build has to be done from scratch and using only
other Debian packages as dependencies. I have already figured out that
I can use the Debian "gradle" package and call the gradle from it instead
of the "gradlew" script. But it downloads a bunch of files from Maven:

Download http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/5.6/checkstyle-5.6.pom
Download http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/sonatype/oss/oss-parent/5/oss-parent-5.pom
Download http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/antlr/antlr/2.7.7/antlr-2.7.7.pom
...

I don't know gradle at all.  Is there a list of those dependencies somewhere?
Any suggestions how to disable all this and tell gradle where to search for its
dependecies locally?

Jochen
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