On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:07:50PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > Hello, > > There are a couple of issues I ran into: > - Can I explicitly require a java package not just to be installed, but > also to be the the selected alternative? > (openjdk ist required at build- and runtime) I did that for tetex-tex4ht, copying what was done in freecol. > - What about missing dependencies? > There are some jars required which are not packed up in Fedora yet. > I'm not allowed to use the binary-jars distributed in the hadoop > tarball? Indeed you are not. They should be packaged in fedora. > - Scripts > There are scripts to run hadoop and dfs (bin/start-all, stop-all, ...) > Where shall I put them? Create a custom user, as postgres does? If hadoop runs as a daemon, it should not run as root but as a special user. And you can do an initscript for fedora, to integrate well with init daemon management. But since I have no ieda what hadoop is, I may be telling nonsensical stuff. In any case, and especially for your first package and an hard package, you can submit a review request with a non-perfect package, as long as you tell it clearly in a comment. As a side note, in general this list should not be used for packaging questions, unless you have in mind a needed change in guidelines to accomodate your package. The development questions should better go to fedora-devel-list, since here it is more to discuss packaging guidelines than for help on existing guidelines. -- Pat -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
