packaging a jar file

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Mar 23 16:30:56 UTC 2009


Subhodip Biswas wrote:
> One thing is : 1) The upstream project gives code only via svn (no
> archive as for now)
>                      2) can i run rpmbuild on that svn code

You need to write a specfile to package something. For the source tarball,
you can use an svn export and pack it into a tar.bz2 archive. Look at how
other prerelease packages are made.

Oh, and if what you want to package happens to be Sesame2 (the "code only
via SVN" story sounds familiar), come talk to us on #fedora-kde. Some
partial work has been done, but it has lots of dependencies which are all
hidden inside that binary JAR file (as nested JAR files, yuck!).

        Kevin Kofler




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