you could install rpm for OSX from MacPorts (https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm/Portfile)
2012/8/21 Anders Hammar <[email protected]>: >> The trouble with rpm is that rpm is an application that largely works on >> machines with a Redhat heritage, like RHEL, Fedora, etc. I also use MacOSX >> as a development >> environment, however I just don't build the rpms on that platform. If the >> rpm plugin can be made to work on MacOSX it would be really useful, but it >> shouldn't stop an effort >> to get it working on Redhat based systems. > > Right, as I got the rpm tool installed on my Mac I was hoping it to > work. And the think is that lot does work, but there are issues with > target architecture. I kind of think that most of these are due to IT > (and maybe even the plugin code) taking different environments in > considerations. Very bad Java manners....:-) > > Not sure what the Codehaus Bamboo instance is running and if we could > at least get it setup there. > >> Maven best practice says that people should be pinning the version number of >> their plugins, so releasing a new plugin should be a low risk exercise - it >> won't break any properly configured maven projects. > > Right, but producing a new release with fixes for some tickets and > also including new issues is just something I hate. I hate being the > consumer of that and I don't want to be the producer. At a minimum, I > need to be able to see the ITs pass on at least one platform (RHEL?). > > /Anders >> >>>> If a release could be made, it would be a huge help. >>> >>> I appreciate this, but I don't like doing releases which I don't trust >>> myself. >>> >>>> Something else I picked up was that JIRA doesn't let an ordinary user like >>>> me set the "path submitted" flag - I could post a patch, I just couldn't >>>> mark the ticket as having a patch. (Or I am missing where in JIRA you set >>>> that). >>> >>> I think you can set this when you initially create the ticket. I >>> marked a few of your tickets as patch included. >> >> The trouble was when I created the ticket, I didn't yet have the patch, that >> came later. >> >> Regards, >> Graham >> -- >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
