Packaging Candlepin as an RPM

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Mon Apr 5 11:48:06 UTC 2010


On 04/04/2010 11:12 AM, Adam Young wrote:
> After doing the work using gem2rpm, I realized that we could do the same
> kind of thing for the Java dependencies that don't have RPMs in Fedora.
> The Maven repos tend to havea source jar with a standard naming
> convention right next to the binary jar, and the pom file has most of
> the info required by the RPM:  License, version, dependencies, and so
> on.  I've started working on a pom2rpm script that produces a spec
> file.  And, to make Jesus happy, I wrote it in Ruby.
>
> So, for this sprint, I'd like to hand off the Group/Security tasks to
> someone else, and concentrate on getting Candlepin packaged as an RPM.
> Is this OK?
>
>
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I would reach out to the JBoss guys to see if they have done any 
thinking in this area.. or with the jpackage guys. It would not hurt to 
see what the issues are before you do it.

-- bk



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