Hey Pat, Am Samstag, den 17.01.2009, 12:22 +0100 schrieb Patrice Dumas: > 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. Thanks for this hint. I'll use a different list teh next time, didn't realize that it was the wrong lsit. - fabian > -- > Pat > > -- > Fedora-packaging mailing list > Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
