packaging a jar file

[Subhodip Biswas]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> 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!).

eh! no, what I am trying to package is JOSM( java openstreetmap editor).

>
>        Kevin Kofler
Anyways, thanks for the help.



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