Advice about upstream using old libraries

[Javi Roman]

Great!

So you have ready Flume for Fedora packaging, let me know if you
prefer I continue with the enhanced of package or I continue my effort
with other ecosystem tools (kafka, storm ... and so on).

--
Javi Roman
es.linkedin.com/in/javiroman


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:12 PM, gil <puntogil at libero.it> wrote:
> Built Apache Flume 1.5.2
> Disabled module (not available buildeps or NON free):
> flume-ng-dist
> flume-dataset-sink
> flume-ng-elasticsearch-sink
> (i use F20 build feps for these modules arent available)
> flume-ng-hbase-sink
> flume-ng-morphline-solr-sink
> use activemq-core >= 5.7.0
> flume-twitter-source
>
> flume-jms-source
>
> disable jetty 6.1.26 support
> use guava 11.x, i disabled some feature for now
>
> Open/update these bug:
> irclib https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178861
> mapdb https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976049
> regards
> - gil
>
> Il 05/01/2015 15:28, Tim St Clair ha scritto:
>
>> Out of curiosity, have you tried setting up containers and running via
>> atomic.
>>
>> You may not get official channels, but you could create recipes for Atomic
>> and add to Docker Hub.
>>
>> Just a thought...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Javi Roman" <jroman.espinar at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Fedora Big Data SIG" <bigdata at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 12:42:19 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Advice about upstream using old libraries
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your answers.
>>>
>>> I'm going to try patch Flume with Fedora Thrift version, I'm agree
>>> that is probably the best way, I guess people at upstream is not
>>> working on it. This is a blocking issue in order to include Flume in
>>> Fedora package repositories.
>>> --
>>> Javi Roman
>>> es.linkedin.com/in/javiroman
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/04/2015 09:33 AM, Javi Roman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The Apache Flume upstream code is using a old library (Apache Thrift
>>>>> v0.8.0) however Fedora packages are using Apache Thrift 0.9.1 since
>>>>> log time ago [2]. The problem is the v0.9.1 version breaks the
>>>>> upstream building [3], and nobody is working in the issue right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is about the steps or procedure from a Fedora packager
>>>>> point of view:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Try to fix the break code by myself, or working with the upstream
>>>>> people in order to fix it (probably complex task).
>>>>> 2. Try to package the older version of the library and make it
>>>>> available in the fedora packages repository.
>>>>
>>>> There is no universal aswer here, the right choice depends on number of
>>>> factors, including:
>>>> - is the old version still maintained by upstream?
>>>> - is it difficult to port to newer version?
>>>> - would upstream eventually accept the patch?
>>>> - are there other packages that require older version?
>>>> - what impact has using different version than upstream? (estimate)
>>>> - ...
>>>>
>>>> Usually it's best to start with 1st option and fall back to 2nd one if
>>>> there are some problems. My algorithm in most cases is:
>>>> - check if upstream already tried to update to newer verion
>>>> - if not then attempt to prepare the patch yourself
>>>> - if it's too hard to prepare patch, fallback to creating compat package
>>>> - build and test rpm package with the patch created
>>>> - send the patch upstream
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mikolaj Izdebski
>>>> Software Engineer, Red Hat
>>>> IRC: mizdebsk
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