Example Ivy promotion script to promote milestones to release builds without using Ant.

ivy-promote.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Example Ivy promotion script to promote milestones to release builds
#
ORG="$1"
MOD="$2"
OUT="./promote"
REV="latest.milestone"
IVY="~/.ant/lib/ivy-2.3.0.jar"

set -ex

rm -rf $OUT

# Fetch the last milestone
java -jar $IVY \
    -settings "$WS/common/ivysettings.xml" \
    -dependency "$ORG" "$MOD" "$REV" \
    -notransitive \
    -retrieve "$OUT/[revision]/[artifact].[ext]" \
    -ivypattern "$OUT/[revision]/[artifact].[ext]"

# What did we download?
MILESTONE=$(basename $(ls -d $OUT/*))

# Prune the "-milestone" out of the version tag
RELEASE="${MILESTONE%-milestone}"

# Publish it back!
java -jar $IVY \
    -settings "$WS/common/ivysettings.xml" \
    -ivy "$OUT/$MILESTONE/ivy.xml" \
    -publish "local" \
    -publishpattern "$OUT/$MILESTONE/[artifact].[ext]" \
    -revision "$RELEASE" \
    -status "release"