Change .ivy2 dir externally

[Jesse]

Is it possible to configure the ivy2 directory used by sbt via a
system parameter or a environment variable. I see I can do it through
the ivyPaths but that is not really what I am looking for. In my case
normally the default is good but a couple servers that we build on
need a custom path for the .ivy2 directory

[Jason Zaugg]

With SBT 0.10.1, you can add a global setting to ~/.sbt/settings.sbt. This will be included in all builds.

Alternatively, you can fake it with a symlink on the filesystem. This is also possible on Windows [1]

-jason

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil.mspx?mfr=true

[Mark Harrah]

Since, 0.10.0, you can set the system property sbt.ivy.home in the
start up script or pass it as an argument to sbt. Either of these
should work:

java -Dsbt.ivy.home=... -jar sbt-launch.jar ...

or

sbt -Dsbt.ivy.home=...

-Mark

[Shiva Wu]

I come across the same problem.
How exactly can I do the trick by global .sbt? This is a great way,
but I cannot find any references.

> [1]http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/prodd...