[fedora-java] A script to help packaging Maven artifacts

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

FWIW, I like Mikolaj's proposal way more!!!

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk at redhat.com>
> To: "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
> Cc: java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:38:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-java] A script to help packaging Maven artifacts
> 
> > I would just add a note that it should be clear enough that this
> > will
> > generate RPMs that would not be supportable on Fedora
> > infrastructure.
> > In other words the tool would download binary jars from maven
> > central,
> > place them in correct subdirectory in (/usr/share/java/maven2rpm/
> > for
> > example) and create proper depmaps so the resulting RPMs would be
> > integrated with rest of the system.
> 
> No, not at all. This tool would create spec files that after some
> minor
> manual tweaks could be included as a part of Fedora.
> 
> This tool would download *source* tarballs and extract metadata from
> pom.xml files creating package skeleton with one artifact per
> subpackage,
> %build section consisting of mvn-rpmbuild and so on. Such package
> would
> meet packaging guidelines and could definitely  be used to package
> software for inclusion in Fedora.
> 
> Mikolaj Izdebski
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