[ODLPARENT-189] Add support for monkey-patched features

Relates — Tue, 8 Jan 2019 11:30:17 +0000

Upstream karaf provides features which are inconsitent in the versions of artifacts it pulls and furthermore we are providing newer versions in declarations.

This leads to our distribution having multiple versions, which are not used, because karaf-plugin looks at unpatched versions as resolved by maven, not as overridden via opendaylight-karaf-resources.

Currently this affects:

javax.mail at 484kB
commons.codec at 258+278kB
aries.util at 108kB
jolokia-osgi at 403kB
h2database at 1512kB
commons-beanutils at 227kB
jackson at 65+317+1317kB

totalling 4.8MB of waste.

PopulateLocalRepoMojo should allow for specific features to be configured as available locally, so that it examines patched versions, eliminating the need for additional dependencies in karaf4-parent and also eliminating duplicates.

OpenDaylight JIRA

[ODLPARENT-189] Add support for monkey-patched features