Re: Packaging Question - Building the Binaries of my package
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 06:49:12PM +0000, Michael Zhang wrote:
Recently, someone advised me that I have to build the binaries from
the
source code in the %install phase. That is to say that I have to make it
transparent how the binaries (ex. jar) are built.
As I understand it, in Debian, developers can build packages on their own
systems and upload them. In Fedora, it doesn't work like that -- we have
dist-git (https://src.fedoraproject.org/) which holds spec files and patches
and references to source code in the look-aside cache. Those source files
should be "pure" -- they shouldn't have pre-built binaries.
So after tinkering around, I can incorporate the building of the
openliberty.zip into the Travis CI build but I cannot directly add it
into the %install phase of the rpm spec file. Would that be fine?
So, no. :) Travis CI is completely outside of our control, and we don't have
a way to verify that the thing built there came from the provided source.
And, someone without access to Travis CI wouldn't be able to replicate your
build.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader