REBUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)

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💅 REBUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is rebuild-jar-repository from the Java Packages Tools manual, section 1. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about the one little command that rebuilds your whole JAR repo situation. it's giving "spring cleaning but make it Java" and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

rebuild-jar-repository — literally rebuilds a JAR repository. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rebuild-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY

so you give it some options (or not, we're flexible 💅) and then a DIRECTORY, and it does its thing. periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕: rebuild-jar-repository rebuilds a jar repository — the kind that was built by build-jar-repository — and it does this based on the current JVM settings. so it's not just rebuilding for funsies, it's matching whatever your JVM is currently serving. main character energy, honestly 👑.

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

okay bestie, listen — if you don't specify any option at all, the default action is to rebuild with symbolic links. no cap. but if you do wanna pick a flavour, here you go:

  • -c, --copy — copy files. like, actual copies. no links, just files, doing their own thing 💖
  • -h, --hard — create hard links. committed. inseparable. bonded fr fr 🔗
  • -s, --soft, --symbolic — create symbolic links. this one is the default, so if you're an icon who loves a symlink, you don't even have to ask 🎀

🧚 DEPENDENCIES 🧚

okay real talk 🙈 — if you use rebuild-jar-repository with artifact-coordinates, it requires the xmvn-resolve command to be available. and here's the part where I have to be responsible: the user of rebuild-jar-repository is responsible for making it available in the system. so like… that's on you, bestie. I can't do that part for you. 😭

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

here's how the girlies actually run it:

rebuild-jar-repository .

this updates all the links created by build-jar-repository in the current working directory, and the updated links will be symbolic links. slay ✨

rebuild-jar-repository -h /tmp

this updates all the links created by build-jar-repository in the /tmp directory, and the updated links will be hard links. look at you switching it up, we love range 💅

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

written by the JPackage Project (http://www.jpackage.org/). kings, honestly 🫶

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? don't just suffer in silence 🙈 — bugs should be reported through the Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. go tell them, they wanna know, iykyk 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay that's the whole page, bestie, you're basically a rebuild-jar-repository expert now 🎀 and just so you have the receipts: this is from JAVAPACKAGES, dated 2026-05-28, and the page is REBUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1). mwah 💋💖

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