Those building with Maven may be interested in: http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-rpm-plugin/index.html http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-deb-plugin/index.html
I haven't used them myself. I'm not sure how they go managing Java dependencies, for example. In Maven, we've talked and thought about working towards a general distribution interface so that you can easily repackage your project dist as tarball, zip, nsis exe and rpm in one go with some small glue scripts if needed. Cheers, Brett On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:00:40 -0400, Shapira, Yoav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The folks at JPackage.org already track several Jakarta projects and > issue RPMs for them: for example, they've been doing this with Tomcat > for a long time. We appreciate their work. We've spoken on the > tomcat-dev list about issuing our own RPMs, and I think it was Costin > (Manolache) who was very interested and knowledgable in this area, so he > might be a good person to ask if you're interested in more Jakarta/RPM > work. > > I know the above is off-topic for this thread, but since the thread is > dying anyways (the OP was a classic "I'll send a clueless rant and > disappear" type), and this is relevant (and of increasing concern as > various linux flavors gain popularity not just in our community, but on > our users' desktops). > > Yoav > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:42 AM > > >To: Jakarta General List > > >Subject: RE: Jakarta - A study in self defeating projects > > > > > >Henri Gomez wrote: > > >> If some people found hard to install and glue jakarta software (not > > >> products) together they should consider JPackage.org ready to use > > >> RPMS. This Linux project make a cross distribution coherent Java > > >> distribution, which is now used by Mandrake, Suse and Redhat. > > > > > >If you can think of some way of validating the contents of the RPMs > (e.g., > > >if they were part of the release testing process and signed by an ASF > > >release manager), maybe we could do something with jpackage.org. Or > add > > >the > > >RPMs to our dist/ tree. > > > > > > --- Noel > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, > and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. > This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may > not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not > the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer > system and notify the sender. Thank you. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
