On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 10:10, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 01-06-2021 08:38, Peter Boy wrote: > >> Am 01.06.2021 um 02:22 schrieb Adam Young <ayoung@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > >> Why is an RPM not feasible? > > I don’t know all the details. Please correct me if my knowledge is incomplete or incorrect. But as to my knowledge, according to Fedora packaging policy the source code must be completely compiled on Fedora infrastructure and each library must become a separate package. For very large and complex Java programs like Wildfly, this is an enormous amount of work and also fits poorly with the Java build system. In this respect, building a rpm is theoretically possible, but practically not feasible with the available resources. There was an attempt a few years ago, but it was not completed as to my knowledge. > Yes, the packaging guidelines are pretty strict. > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Java/#_pre_built_dependencies > > It was completed up to the point of a working Web Profile with some > extensions. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/JBossAS7 > > To give an indication of the amount of dependencies that would need to > be packaged you can look at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBossAS7#Current_progress > > Nowadays we acknowledge 277 components in EAP 7.4 (which is based on > WildFly 23). > > The most important thing to understand is Fedora uses Xmvn to build > Maven projects, not Apache Maven. In a very small nutshell it boils down > to GAVs in poms being ignored and only (RPM) installed GAs are used. > > Carlo > Note that while Wildfly *was* packaging in Fedora, it no longer is because it amounted to more than one person's full time job to keep it and its dependencies updated and working in Fedora. For some history, please see Marek's email from 2015: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/SD26DWKQRKF4PIW656NKSRZXBJUP2PI4/ -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora _______________________________________________ java-devel mailing list -- java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to java-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
