From 53760225f57973c9ba27d8e27d1f6946c9503322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason van Zyl Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:46:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] o point people at the website git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk@478663 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- README.txt | 42 ++---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index ededfb6555..2ccc11be04 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,41 +1,3 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Bootstrapping Maven -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +See: -Set the environment variable M2_HOME pointing to the dir where you want Maven2 -installed... with two key restrictions. - -1) presently, the directory {M2_HOME}/bin must be in your path: -set PATH=%PATH%;%M2_HOME%\bin -or -export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin - -2) The last part of the M2_HOME path MUST be of the form maven-$version, eg: -/usr/local/maven-2.1-SNAPSHOT - -You can set the parameters passed to the Java VM when running Maven2 bootstrap, -setting the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS, e.g. to run in offline mode, -set MAVEN_OPTS=-o - -Then run bootstrap.bat (in Windows) or bootstrap.sh (in Unix) - -NOTE: You must run these instructions from this directory! - -If you are behind a firewall, you will need to let the bootstrap process know. -To do this, create a file at ~/.m2/settings.xml and paste in the XML below, -substituting your settings for those provided. You can safely skip the -username, password and nonProxyHost elements if they are not relevant to you. - - - - - true - http - proxy.somewhere.com - 8080 - proxyuser - somepassword - www.google.com|*.somewhere.com - - - +http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-building-m2.html