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

John,

No, that file does not exist any more. All documentation exists in the www
repo now

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 30 December 2015 at 15:10, John Harvey <john(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> That sounds good to me. The github tarball will work just fine-- I just
> wanted to make sure that it was an intended change since it looks a little
> different.
>
> I think RPM-wise that covers everything except for one last question,
> about this file:
> doc/pgjdbc.xml
>
> I think this was a docbook that used to be created from all of the
> javadocs in the ant builds. I don't see that in the current build (note
> that I am running with -Prelease-artifacts to generate html files). Is
> that something that needs to be fixed? If so, I could take a stab at it.
>
> Regards,
> -John
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Download zip file from github would work, no ? I can switch back but was
>> trying to use maven for everything. This is the source file that it provides
>>
>> Dave Cramer
>>
>> davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
>> www.postgresintl.com
>>
>> On 30 December 2015 at 14:51, John Harvey <john(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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