Hi -

> On Jul 23, 2018, at 4:55 PM, Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:12 AM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> (3) Pulsar IO Connectors NAR files.
>> Signature and checksums pass.
>> LICENSE and DISCLAIMER exist in the top level of the package.
>> LICENSE and NOTICE plus DEPENDENCIES exist in the NAR files.
>> 
>> ==> DISCLAIMER should be included in the NAR files.
>> ==> NOTICE should also be at the top level.
>> 
> 
> It's a bit tricky to add these. We are using the Apache NiFi NAR maven
> plugin to generate the archives. To add custom files, we would probably
> have to customize the plugin itself.

Does the NAR system generate the whole package or just the individual NAR files?

Someone could go to d...@nifi.apache.org and ask.

> 
> 
>> (4) DEB
>> Signature and checksums pass
>> NOTICE, LICENSE, and DISCLAIMER look good.
>> 
>> ==> copyright files contain the Apache License. IMO these ought to contain
>> the NOTICE
>> 
> 
> Yes, I was a bit confused by this. My understanding was that in Debian
> convention the 'copyright' file contains the license. I left both LICENSE
> and 'copyright' just to be on the safe side.

It looks like the Debian project may be finally defining these. 
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

> 
> (5) RPM
>> Signature and checksums pass
>> NOTICE, LICENSE, and DISCLAIMER look good.
>> 
>> ==> I’m curious about how the sqlite binary files are used.
>> 
> 
> The sqlite binary files (and similarly the Packages.gz for Debian) are used
> by the package manages (yum or apt-get) to fetch the metadata of the
> available packages.
> 
> The idea would be for users to first import the YUM repository and then do
> the regular `yum install apache-pulsar-client`.
> 
> Once the binaries are available on mirrors, we'll be adding instructions,
> similar to what Cassandra has for rpm/deb files at
> http://cassandra.apache.org/download/
> 

Great.

Regards,
Dave

> 
> Matteo
> 
> 
> --
> Matteo Merli
> <mme...@apache.org>

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