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[MWRAPPER-156] mvnw wrapper wget fail to download maven.zip...

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, linux
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with the mvnw wrapper's download path and reproduce the failure in an Alpine Linux container using BusyBox wget behind a proxy. Done means the wrapper downloads supported Maven versions successfully without requiring the full wget package; no specific test file is named in the issue.

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Description

bug priority:major

Mathieu CARBONNEAUX opened MWRAPPER-156 and commented

i use alpine linux container (eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-alpine) to build my java project with maven wrapper...

and i'm behind proxy (i use .mvn/jvm.config file to set proxy)...

 

when upgraded maven wrapper (mvn wrapper:wrapper -Dmaven=3.8.1 and maven wrapper >=3.2.x and tryed many other higher version), they fail to download maven jar...

with error:

wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 500 handshakefailed

after many try i found that is related with version of wget on alpine... by default alpine linux use busybox version of wget... and busybox version has not all argument options are available vs original complete version...

 

i've resolved first by wrapp old version of maven 3.6.3 and wrapper 3.1.1 :

mvn wrapper:wrapper -Dmaven=3.6.3

but is not satisfesant... because i'm blocked with old version of maven...

 

i've also resolved by adding complet version of wget in alpine linux:

 

apk add wget

and is work fine with latest version of maven (3.9.x) ...

 

the berter solution while be to support busybox wget command on alpine linux.... this permits to have lower sized container to build maven wrapper project... and also work by default on alpine temurin...

 


Affects: 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2

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