Laird,
The currently shipping version of Update Center does not support file based
repositories. It is based on an older version of IPS and does not have this
capability (the maven plugin uses smoke and mirrors to make it look like
you are publishing directly to the filesystem).
At some point we would like to move to the latest IPS source base, but
we do not have a timeline for when this would occur.
Joe
On 08/15/11 01:30 PM, Laird Nelson wrote:
> Looking to make my https://github.com/ljnelson/hibernate-ips project as simple as possible.
>
> Currently, to install the Update Center package that it produces, you need to start up a
> pkg.depotd server, then add that server to the Update Center. Once you do that, then
> anything that has been published to that depot appears in the Update Center.
>
> My hibernate-ips project uses the latest version of Kohsuke's maven-makepkgs-plugin, which
> allows for "publishing" the IPS package to a file based IPS repository (I set it by
> default to point at my project's ${project.build.directory}). Now I'd like to be able to
> point Update Center at that directory location.
>
> When I do, Update Center complains that the publisher URL is invalid. It doesn't tell me
> why it's invalid. I can only suppose that it doesn't recognize the file: protocol.
>
> Best,
> Laird