2009/6/9 Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hoping to package BlueJ. > http://www.bluej.org/about/what.html > > > Q1: > http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html > Downloadable jar file, (and use contents of) > or > http://www.bluej.org/download/source-download.html > Contains mix of Win\Mac\*nix stuff in the source zip The package must be built from source so the second option in this case. > Q2: > The third party bits that are required to run the BlueJ, > have to be removed from the BlueJ Package as per > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-June/msg00004.html > > If not already included in FP, > they would have to be packaged separately, > from their upstream sites? Dependencies should be packaged separately and from upstream. There are exceptions to this but they are rare and should generally be avoided if possible. A lot of the dependencies may well already be packaged within Fedora > Q3: > Is there anyone in devel-list who has packaged *java apps* who > would be willing to guide me as this would be my first package. fedora-java-list is a good place to find java packagers although i am sure there are some here too. > Q4: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java > is most current re. java? Those are the guidelines (for java packages) which should generally be adhered to in addition to the standard packaging guidelines. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
