Generating Karaf Bundle

Question

I've got a hello world opendaylight app (created following the tutorials) which compiles using a mvn clean install, and appears when I run the karaf package that is also generated.

However I am unable to get it to run in another ODL install (downloaded the binary with all the other packages from the website), and even using a

bundle:install mvn:org.andrew.test

results in unable to install bundle (tried copying to deploy and system/org/andrew....)

How do you get a bundle which can be used in another install?

Answer 1

Why do you want to bundle:install instead of feature:install ?

What most existing ODL projects do for you, and what the example generated by the archetype should also show you how to do for your custom org.andrew.test one (have you used the archetype? try it..) is that there is a local karaf/ artifact which correctly depends on the features/odl-something feature of your example, and lets you install it, which will install your bundle/s.

In theory and if you really know what you are doing, you can also get it to work for what you call "in another install" in your question, but you have to use repo-app and what not - most people do not use it like that AFAIK (at least in ODL development); so I wouldn't bother, if I were you.

If you want to learn more about this in general outside of OpenDaylight, the general Karaf documentation manual is not bad. Beware that in ODL we've tweaked a few things though; for example, we have (intentionally) disabled the direct installation from ~/.m2/repository (for better isolation).