[fedora-java] eclipse for EPEL7

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/20/2014 09:43 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> On 11/20/2014 10:32 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> On 11/20/2014 12:26 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
>>> Eclipse is now part of DTS.
>>>
>>> There is community effort to rebuild DTS in Copr and make it available
>>> on softwarecollections.org:
>>>
>>>      https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhscl/devtoolset-3-el7/
>>>
>>> Currently packages in this Copr fail to build, but I can provide some
>>> hints how DTS can be built.
>>>
>>> First, you need to add four additional packages to buildroot. These
>>> packages can be taken from Fedora. They are build-time dependencies of
>>> DTS and are not needed during runtime. These packages are: decentxml,
>>> tycho, tycho-extras and xml-maven-plugin.
>>
>> How can they practically be taken from Fedora for use in a EPEL7 copr?
>
> You can take RPMs from Fedora, copy them to some directory, run
> createrepo_c on it, upload the resulting YUM repo somewhere (like
> fedorapeople.org) and add repo link to extra repos in Copr.

Okay, that should work.  But we should have a common infrastructure that 
everyone who needs to build these things could build off of.    This 
just feels a bit too cobbled together to me.  Of course, sometimes I 
feel that way about this whole SCL thing in the first place.

>> I would think we would need versions of these packages built in EPEL7.
>
> That shouldn't be needed.

But it would provide this common base in a well respected repository.


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