Re: Are pgrpm changes for JDBC discussed here before submission? - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

Hi,

pgsql-pkg-yum@ is rpm mailing list.

I have zero idea about maven. How much effort would it take to RPMify it?

Can you please send the new spec? I can give a try tomorrow.

Regards, Devrim

On December 30, 2015 9:16:20 PM GMT+02:00, John Harvey <john.harvey@crunchydata.com> wrote:

Hello Devrim,

I've got a functioning spec-file, but I have a question which I think needs to be answered before contributing my spec-file changes (which I'm not quite sure how to do for pgrpms-- I couldn't find a mail-list).

The question has to do with the new build being dependent on maven instead of ant.

Typically, with a spec file it is expected that we could address this with the following line:

BuildRequires:  maven >= 3.0.0

However, there's a problem.  Maven isn't generally packaged as an RPM.  In fact, even the official RHEL docs point to the maven project site for installation, and that's via tarball unzipping.  I found an abandoned java project where somebody tried RPM-ing maven, but they abandoned the project somewhere with maven 2.x, and personally I could not get it to build.

So, I figured I'd try another approach.  The other method that I've seen for setting a dependency is to do something like the following:

BuildRequires: /usr/bin/mvn

However, even that doesn't work for me.  I keep getting that the dependency isn't found, when it's definitely there on my system.  Note that I have seen that syntax under a "Requires" line (not BuildRequires) in a couple of spec files before, but they were in an ifdef block, so they may not have even been a valid syntax that was tested.

I guess I'm not sure what the right approach here is.  If I leave the maven dependency off, that's not the correct answer, as it's definitely a requirement (more specifically, maven 3.x).  However, I'm not sure what I can do to make the spec-file recognize this build dependency.

Note that I'm happy to take this to another list if that's appropriate, or have an offline discussion if that makes sense.

Thank you,

  -John

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:

Hi Dave,

Well, *building* RPMs are PITA nowadays, so until we get a stable build, I would prefer this list to catch your attention.

Regards, Devrim

On December 30, 2015 6:20:40 PM GMT+02:00, Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:

Hi John,

We don't have anything to do with the RPMS

Dave

Dave Cramer

davec@postgresintl.com

www.postgresintl.com

On 30 December 2015 at 11:03, John Harvey <john.harvey@crunchydata.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I have created some changes to the pgrpm repository (git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgrpms.git) in order to support the maven changes that went into PGJDBC REL9.4.1207.  The changes allow for the proper generation of RPMS for RHEL6 / 7.  Before I submit the changes to pgrpm, I was wondering if those changes are discussed in the community here, or if they're discussed solely with the team that works on the pgrpm repository?

I'd be more than happy to share my changes here if it's worth a discussion.

Regards,

  -John

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