On 10:08:25 pm Friday,
December 03, 2010 frank wrote:
> Hi developers:
> I am working on
packaging our project into Fedora. Here some questions
> I want to consult
for you. Our project is Java based, it depends on many
> thirdpartt JARs
that some are already in Fedora and some are not.
>
> 1. For those absent
JARs, how should I handle them?
You have to package your
dependencies in separate rpms and build them from source.
> Could directly
include them in my package?
No you can't because if
you include them directly we won't be sure that they are
rebuildable which is crucial for us. Also if you include them
directly we won't have the source and we won't be able to verify
that they don't include some non-free parts.
> I saw some packages
do directly include JARs even these JARs are available in other
packages. e.g. eclipse-pde
Hmm, what are you
referring to? eclipse-pde contains symlinks to junit4 and
objectweb-asm jars not the jars themself. That's why eclipse-pde
requires junit4 and objectweb-asm to be installed so this
symlinks won't be broken.
>
> 2. We use ANT to
build and deploy our software, however, we also use
> waf to do
configuration because ANT is not strong on this part. Will this
> be a problem? I
really see some Java project mixed uses GNU tool and ANT,
> so I guess it's
also ok for mixing ANT with waf.
Your best bet is to use
the same buildsystem you're using upstream to do builds.
Hope that helps,
Alex
>
> thank you.
>
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