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

Lin Gao lgao at redhat.com
Mon May 28 12:40:29 UTC 2012


Hi,

BR
Lin Gao


On 05/25/2012 04:57 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 16:07:08 +0800, Lin Gao wrote:
>
>> 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?
> Would it not be feasible to build an ironjacamar-standalone subpackage
> from the existing ironjacamar src.rpm package? Additional build-time
> dependencies could lead to problems/conflicts or make the build process
> more complicated if a single src.rpm were to be used.
>
> I'm not aware of any policy that would disallow reusing a source archive
> in multiple src.rpm packages in order to build something differently.
>
> The reason to not build everything from within a single src.rpm could also
> be that either of the builds may need to change more often (with regard to
> bug-fixing/patching).  For example, some existing src.rpms build the
> included source two times, once for GTK2 and a second time for GTK3, and
> put the resulting builds in separate binary rpms. However, if either of
> the builds required more maintenance, the updates for the other one would
> be superfluous. Hence it could be more convenient to split into two
> src.rpm packages (with the added risk that avoiding file conflicts becomes
> more difficult).
>
Yes, make sense. Thank you!


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