Hi Robert, On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:11 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > Hello everyone on the list.. I have been working on packaging subclipse, > the Eclipse Subversion plugin in order to add it to Fedora Extras. <snip> That's great! I was planning to look into packaging subclipse tomorrow, but it seems you have a head start on me :) I don't know off hand why your getting that error, but I do have few questions about your general build procedure: First, do you have instructions for generating those source tarballs? Andrew Overholt and I have been putting instructions for generating these in the comments of the spec file. We're hoping that we will be able to share these instructions with other distros and documenting these steps allows others to reproduce the tarball easily. Next, would you consider using the build procedure outlined here?: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2006-January/msg00060.html This would eliminate the need to generate the build.xml's with Eclipse and then add them in as a patch. For small projects, this is not a big deal, but it would get annoying for larger features or if you had to do a lot of packaging. Generating a source tarball would then be a simple as checking out the correct tag from cvs, deleting any jars and compressing it up. Long term I'd like to get the upstream projects to use Eclipse to export source drops that are compatible with this plugin builder when they spin a release. This would avoid problem with projects that don't properly tag cvs. The plugin builder is not quite ready yet. My plan is to fix the last few problems tomorrow and whip up some test rpms early next week. I'll probably start with what you posted if that's ok. If you IRC, I hang out on freenode in #fodora-java and my nick is scsibear. Anyway, I hope we can work together on getting this into Extras. I know the there are a lot of people waiting for this plugin to get packaged up. Cheers, Ben
