> From: "J. Allen Crider" <[email protected]> > I would very much like to see RPMs for RHEL for Eclipse and jEdit > plug-ins added. In the case of Eclipse, I am most interested in Python, > C++, and UML related plug-ins, although others may be useful as well.
This is tricky to do. JPackage seems to be the leading RPM building site for Java, the one from which RedHat and Fedora get their base code for their customized SRPM's. This has actually created some friction when RedHat went in some odd directions, that made support harder for JPackage. And resolving them with what Sun does to their RPM's for the latest JRE and JDK packages is even more fun: JPackage is way ahead on getting Sun JDK 1.6.0 into RHEL gracefully with all of RHEL's scattered little bits and widgets, especially for x86_64. The JPackage repository plays nicely with the RPMforge repository, so it might be more efficient to spend your Java efforts there and your other open source efforts (such as perl utilities and Sourceforge based projects) here. For the "eclipse" utility, RHEL 5 has a booby trap: they invented, only for RHEL 5, an "eclipse-ecj" utility that "Provides" and "Obsoletes" the eclipse package from anywhere else, especially RHEL 4 for upgrade. This means that you've either got to block eclipse-ecj in your yum setups, plug in a newer eclipse-ecj placeholding RPM to block the darn thing and avoid messing with yum.conf, I've published a .spec file for that, and would be happy to send you a copy. The difficulty with simply building your own bits of Java utilities and dropping them into yet another repository is mastering the toolchain: The dependencies are not as fascinating and unpredictable as those for random CPAN perl modules, but they accumulate and demand a lot of time. Providing the updated "Ant" software building utility alone is critical to many of them, and that's not something you can build and integrate safely all by itself. (Been there, done that: the JPackage ant-1.7.x RPM was the way to go.) has worked out some relevant RPM's, but integrating them with non-RedHat JRE or JDK packages can be an adventure. I've published some .spec files for Sun JDK integration tools, and some .spec files for a placeholder to replace RHEL's "eclipse-ecj JPackage plays reasonably well with RPMforge, with their different codebases. The one problem with the " > > I'd be willing to help if anyone could suggest a way in which I could > assist. However, the only system I have available that could be used > for this is a copy of CentOS running in VMware player on Kubuntu. > > The reason for my interest is that the IT organization has made it very > difficult for us to use Open Source software at the place where I work. > The only exceptions that don't involve a lot of obstacles are packages > included on the RHEL installation discs and a mirror of the DAG > repository to which we have access. > > Thank you, > Allen Crider > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > suggest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest > > > End of suggest Digest, Vol 57, Issue 15 > *************************************** > _______________________________________________ suggest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest
