Bundling binary allowed for bootstrapping?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Feb 16 15:35:43 UTC 2011


Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> We will need to package sonatype-tycho[1] sooner or later for building
> eclipse. I started looking into it a little bit and it seems things
> would be much, much more simple if I was able to bundle current binary
> release of tycho (or probably just some part of it) temporarily to build
> "our" tycho binary.
> 
> I have a faint memory of something like this being allowed, but I can't
> find the guideline about it so maybe I remember wrong. Current bundling
> guidelines[2] doesn't mention bootstrapping at all. Any input on this?

covered here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-
built_binaries_or_libraries
In particular,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions

-- Rex



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