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

Thanks Dave. I'll have to try that out; it might be what we need.

Devin- I'll try to get you a spec file by tomorrow for testing if that's
all right.

BTW, I have a question about the latest PGJDBC release.

On the downloads page (https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html) all of
the previous "source" items are tar.gz files, whereas for this release,
it's a sources jarfile. Is this going to be a permanent switch? If so, I
have a concern because the sources jar does not appear to contain the pom
file for compilation. Typically the RPM code uses a source tarball as a
starting point. Just curious if that's going to be hosted somewhere.

Thanks!
-John

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:

> seems there is an rpm for maven
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7532928/how-do-i-install-maven-with-yum
>
> Dave Cramer
>
> davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
> www.postgresintl.com
>
> On 30 December 2015 at 14:28, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> 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(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)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(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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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
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