Re: Are pgrpm changes for JDBC discussed here before submission?

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(at)gunduz(dot)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(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> We don't have anything to do with the RPMS
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Dave Cramer
>>
>> davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
>> www.postgresintl.com
>>
>> On 30 December 2015 at 11:03, John Harvey <john(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)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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