Hello Dave,
On 07/30/2015 11:02 PM, Dave Johansen wrote:
I would like to package Jenkins for RHEL/EPEL 6 and 7. Is there a
current
or recent version from Fedora that would be a good starting point? Any
other advice?
Jenkins and many of its dependencies require Maven for building, but
Maven is not available in EPEL 6. Packaging it is rather difficult as
Maven with dependencies is about 265 packages (!!).
RHEL 7 has Maven so situation there for packaging Jenkins is much
better. Most of packages should build just fine in EPEL 7, but there may
be a few problems with conflicting older parkage versions (Jenkins may
require newer versions of some packages, but they are in RHEL, so can't
be updated).
I'll try to help with packaging for EPEL 7 if you decide to do so.
I recommend you to join #fedora-java IRC channel on FreeNode, where you
can ping me (mizdebsk) or msrb to discuss this or ask questions.
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Mikolaj Izdebski
Software Engineer, Red Hat
IRC: mizdebsk