Re: [fedora-java] Improvements Eclipse Installation

2012-02-15 Thread sami wagiaalla
I am going to hold off on this as I have run into an issue where bundles installed using and update site don't work with bundles installed using rpm if there is a bundle conflict between the two. I am investigating. After looking into this I realized that we cannot move forward with the

Re: [fedora-java] Improvements Eclipse Installation

2012-02-10 Thread sami wagiaalla
So let's give these packages a couple of days and start (hopefully also finish) committing by Monday. I am going to hold off on this as I have run into an issue where bundles installed using and update site don't work with bundles installed using rpm if there is a bundle conflict between the

Re: [fedora-java] Improvements Eclipse Installation

2012-02-09 Thread sami wagiaalla
(https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5021) so I will send out the message as soon as that is approved. The goal is to finish this before f17 branches from rawhide. Unfortunately I have missed the above deadline but here is an update of I have been upto: Before the custom tag was created

Re: [fedora-java] Improvements Eclipse Installation

2012-01-13 Thread sami wagiaalla
I will be filing a request to update the Eclipse packaging guidelines. Hi Everybody, Now that the new packaging guidelines have been approved (https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/122) it will soon be time to implement these improvements in all Eclipse packages. The official packaging

Re: Improvements Eclipse Installation

2011-11-29 Thread sami wagiaalla
On 11/01/2011 10:56 AM, sami wagiaalla wrote: [...] One note, I don't like macros that span multiple scriptlets. Having a macro for each scriptlet (or forgoing a macro if the resulting code is simple enough) seems to be about the right level of indirection. It does not look pretty I agree

Re: Improvements Eclipse Installation

2011-11-01 Thread sami wagiaalla
[...] One note, I don't like macros that span multiple scriptlets. Having a macro for each scriptlet (or forgoing a macro if the resulting code is simple enough) seems to be about the right level of indirection. It does not look pretty I agree, but my motivation is to make things simple for

Improvements Eclipse Installation

2011-10-26 Thread sami wagiaalla
Hi, The way we currently install Eclipse plugins in Fedora is incorrect and somewhat fragile. RPM places all the plugin artifacts in the proper directories. However that does not update the eclipse metadata. This means that until the next time eclipse starts it is unaware of the newly

Re: [fedora-java] Improvements Eclipse Installation

2011-10-26 Thread sami wagiaalla
On 10/26/2011 11:37 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 10/26/2011 09:20 AM, sami wagiaalla wrote: To add support for this in your eclipse package you have to add the following line to your rpm spec file: %_eclipse_pkg [package name] For what Fedora versions is this applicable to? rawhide (f17