[Fedora-packaging] Can multiple packages built from same source?

[Stanislav Ochotnicky]

Quoting Lin Gao (2012-05-25 10:07:08)
> Hi,
> 
>      We have a package already built in Fedora called: ironjacamar, 
> which only produces several core jars used by JBoss AS 7. We also want 
> to built a ironjacamar standalone environment which can make the 
> ironjacamar running without JBoss AS 7 environment, but this standalone 
> environment has different libraries than JBoss AS 7 has. So we plan to 
> built a overall new package called: ironjacamar-standalone, which 
> produces the ironjacamar standalone environment, it will use the same 
> source as the package: ironjacamar uses.  I want to know if it is 
> approved in Fedora?

Have you contacted ironjacamar maintainer? I assume ironjacamar produces
only some of the jars required by JBoss AS7, because building additional
jars would need more dependencies. In order to simplify packaging: these
were skipped.

I don't know the details, but I believe going for a subpackage approach
would be better. Getting in touch with ironjacamar maintainers is needed
in any case.

Or maybe I misunderstood and you say ironjacamar-standalone is meant to
be used without requiring several jboss packages? Even in that case a
subpackages could be done in a way to have simple dependencies for one
subpackage and main package just having subpackage in Requires.

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Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno

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