[fedora-java] JBoss Packaging in Fedora

[Fernando Nasser]

P.S.: For F-13 we are planning AS 5.2

----- "Robert Marcano" <robert at marcanoonline.com> wrote:

> On 09/22/2009 03:10 PM, Ricardo Argüello wrote:
> > I would like to help package JBoss for Fedora. Maybe we could add
> this
> > as a Feature for Fedora 13.
> >
> 
> Hola Ricardo, I can join the effort. I already have a extremely custom
> 
> (patches and configuration changes) JBoss 4.2 RPM for internal use. It
> 
> is not to the level of Fedora packaging standards, but I think the 
> experience packaging it is helpful, even if the 5.x codebase is
> different
> 
> 
> > Anybody else interested in helping out? I think there was a
> previous
> > effort, but I'm not sure if they managed to pack the lot of
> > dependencies needed.
> >
> 
> Yes, I think we should start with JBoss 5.x too
> 
> > The JPackage project managed to package JBoss 4.2.3 for Fedora 10.
> We
> > could use those RPMs to start, but maybe we should package JBoss
> 5.x
> > instead.
> >
> > How can we work together on this?
> 
> My workflow when I package something Java related with a lot of 
> dependencies is that I start at the top level and not thinking too
> much 
> about the dependencies. In this case I will start packaging JBoss
> as-is 
> (before adding it to Fedora repositories), it means using the already
> 
> build dependencies from the public maven repositories or bundled in
> the 
> source tar, and then replacing one by one with the required links to 
> Fedora packages one by one, adding what is needed to be added to
> Fedora 
> or requesting upgrades to the packages needed
> 
> >
> > References:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBoss
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBoss_packaging_effort
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBoss_packaging_effort/Dependencies
> >
> 
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