On Fri, 25 May 2012 16:07:08 +0800, Lin Gao wrote:

Hi,

 We have a package already built in Fedora called: ironjacamar, 

which only produces several core jars used by JBoss AS 7. We also want to built a ironjacamar standalone environment which can make the ironjacamar running without JBoss AS 7 environment, but this standalone environment has different libraries than JBoss AS 7 has. So we plan to built a overall new package called: ironjacamar-standalone, which produces the ironjacamar standalone environment, it will use the same source as the package: ironjacamar uses. I want to know if it is approved in Fedora?

Would it not be feasible to build an ironjacamar-standalone subpackage from the existing ironjacamar src.rpm package? Additional build-time dependencies could lead to problems/conflicts or make the build process more complicated if a single src.rpm were to be used.

I'm not aware of any policy that would disallow reusing a source archive in multiple src.rpm packages in order to build something differently.

The reason to not build everything from within a single src.rpm could also be that either of the builds may need to change more often (with regard to bug-fixing/patching). For example, some existing src.rpms build the included source two times, once for GTK2 and a second time for GTK3, and put the resulting builds in separate binary rpms. However, if either of the builds required more maintenance, the updates for the other one would be superfluous. Hence it could be more convenient to split into two src.rpm packages (with the added risk that avoiding file conflicts becomes more difficult).

Hi,

BR Lin Gao

On 05/25/2012 06:10 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:

Quoting Lin Gao (2012-05-25 10:07:08)

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Hi,

  We have a package already built in Fedora called: ironjacamar,

which only produces several core jars used by JBoss AS 7. We also want to built a ironjacamar standalone environment which can make the ironjacamar running without JBoss AS 7 environment, but this standalone environment has different libraries than JBoss AS 7 has. So we plan to built a overall new package called: ironjacamar-standalone, which produces the ironjacamar standalone environment, it will use the same source as the package: ironjacamar uses. I want to know if it is approved in Fedora?

Have you contacted ironjacamar maintainer?

I am contacting with him.

I assume ironjacamar produces only some of the jars required by JBoss AS7, because building additional jars would need more dependencies. In order to simplify packaging: these were skipped.

Yes, I am aware of that. I am building the missing dependencies now, there are only 3 dependencies left needed for ironjacamar standalone environment.

I don't know the details, but I believe going for a subpackage approach would be better. Getting in touch with ironjacamar maintainers is needed in any case.

Or maybe I misunderstood and you say ironjacamar-standalone is meant to be used without requiring several jboss packages? Even in that case a subpackages could be done in a way to have simple dependencies for one subpackage and main package just having subpackage in Requires.

ironjacamar-standalone uses some *shared* libraries as JBoss AS 7 and some libraries used only by ironjacamar-standalone itself, like: papaki, fungal.

Thank you for the advices !