Populate repository

You can add new artifacts in a repository.

Upload a single artifact

You can upload a single artifact into a Cave Repository:

karaf@root()> cave:repository-upload-artifact my-repository file:/home/jbonofre/.m2/repository/org/apache/servicemix/bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.asm/3.3_2/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.asm-3.3_2.jar
karaf@root()> cave:repository-upload-artifact my-repository http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/m2-repo/org/apache/qpid/qpid-broker/0.8.0/qpid-broker-0.8.0.jar

You can also use Maven style URL:

karaf@root()> cave:repository-upload-artifact my-repository mvn:org.apache.servicemix.bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.ant/1.7.0_5

Populate from an external repository

You can also make a kind of "bulk" population of your repository, using an external repository:

karaf@root()> cave:repository-populate my-repository file:/home/jbonofre/.m2/repository

Apache Karaf Cave supports file: but also http: URL. It means that Apache Karaf Cave is able to browse a remote repository and copy the artifacts in your "local" repository.

For instance, you can populate your repository using all Ant ServiceMix bundles present on the Central Maven repository:

karaf@root()> cave:repository-populate my-repository http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/servicemix/bundles/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.ant/

You can also populate with the whole Central Maven Repository:

karaf@root()> cave:repository-populate my-repository http://repo1.maven.org/maven2

Note	Maven Central repository is really huge and populating from the whole Maven Central Repository will take very very long time. It’s just for demonstration purpose.

You can filter the artifacts that you want to pick up to populate the repository. The cave:repository-populate command accepts a regex option for the filter. For instance, to pick up only joda-time version 2 artifact, you can run:

karaf@root()> cave:repository-populate --filter .*joda-time-2.* my-repository http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/joda-time/joda-time