-distro REPO (',' REPO)

The -distro instruction is used in the case that your application must run in a host environment, for example Karaf. In such cases it is not possible to calculate the system capabilities from the framework and the run path. Each of these host environments has a specific set of capabilities that should be used as input to the resolver.

The -distro capability has the same syntax as the -runpath, a list of bundle specifications. The resolver will parse these bundles and treat their capabilities specified with the Provide-Capability header in their Manifest as the system capabilities. These files can be generated manually. However, the bnd command line tool can create a distro bundle using the remote agent.

When the -distro is present in the bndrun file it overrides any other definition that are used to derive capabilities. If additional capabilities are needed the -runprovidedcapabilities should be used.

For example:

-distro: karaf-4.1.jar;version=file