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

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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