Re: Are pgrpm changes for JDBC discussed here before submission?

Download zip file from github would work, no ? I can switch back but was
trying to use maven for everything. This is the source file that it provides

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 30 December 2015 at 14:51, John Harvey <john(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
wrote:

> Thanks Dave. I'll have to try that out; it might be what we need.
>
> Devin- I'll try to get you a spec file by tomorrow for testing if that's
> all right.
>
> BTW, I have a question about the latest PGJDBC release.
>
> On the downloads page (https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html) all of
> the previous "source" items are tar.gz files, whereas for this release,
> it's a sources jarfile. Is this going to be a permanent switch? If so, I
> have a concern because the sources jar does not appear to contain the pom
> file for compilation. Typically the RPM code uses a source tarball as a
> starting point. Just curious if that's going to be hosted somewhere.
>
> Thanks!
> -John
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> seems there is an rpm for maven
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7532928/how-do-i-install-maven-with-yum
>>
>> Dave Cramer
>>
>> davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
>> www.postgresintl.com
>>
>> On 30 December 2015 at 14:28, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> pgsql-pkg-yum@ is rpm mailing list.
>>>
>>> I have zero idea about maven. How much effort would it take to RPMify it?
>>>
>>> Can you please send the new spec? I can give a try tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Regards, Devrim
>>>
>>>
>>> On December 30, 2015 9:16:20 PM GMT+02:00, John Harvey <
>>> john(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Devrim,
>>>>
>>>> I've got a functioning spec-file, but I have a question which I think
>>>> needs to be answered before contributing my spec-file changes (which I'm
>>>> not quite sure how to do for pgrpms-- I couldn't find a mail-list).
>>>>
>>>> The question has to do with the new build being dependent on maven
>>>> instead of ant.
>>>> Typically, with a spec file it is expected that we could address this
>>>> with the following line:
>>>> BuildRequires: maven >= 3.0.0
>>>>
>>>> However, there's a problem. Maven isn't generally packaged as an RPM.
>>>> In fact, even the official RHEL docs point to the maven project site for
>>>> installation, and that's via tarball unzipping. I found an abandoned java
>>>> project where somebody tried RPM-ing maven, but they abandoned the project
>>>> somewhere with maven 2.x, and personally I could not get it to build.
>>>>
>>>> So, I figured I'd try another approach. The other method that I've
>>>> seen for setting a dependency is to do something like the following:
>>>> BuildRequires: /usr/bin/mvn
>>>>
>>>> However, even that doesn't work for me. I keep getting that the
>>>> dependency isn't found, when it's definitely there on my system. Note that
>>>> I have seen that syntax under a "Requires" line (not BuildRequires) in a
>>>> couple of spec files before, but they were in an ifdef block, so they may
>>>> not have even been a valid syntax that was tested.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'm not sure what the right approach here is. If I leave the
>>>> maven dependency off, that's not the correct answer, as it's definitely a
>>>> requirement (more specifically, maven 3.x). However, I'm not sure what I
>>>> can do to make the spec-file recognize this build dependency.
>>>>
>>>> Note that I'm happy to take this to another list if that's appropriate,
>>>> or have an offline discussion if that makes sense.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, *building* RPMs are PITA nowadays, so until we get a stable
>>>>> build, I would prefer this list to catch your attention.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Devrim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On December 30, 2015 6:20:40 PM GMT+02:00, Dave Cramer <
>>>>> pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We don't have anything to do with the RPMS
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave Cramer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
>>>>>> www.postgresintl.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 December 2015 at 11:03, John Harvey <
>>>>>> john(dot)harvey(at)crunchydata(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have created some changes to the pgrpm repository (git://
>>>>>>> git.postgresql.org/git/pgrpms.git) in order to support the maven
>>>>>>> changes that went into PGJDBC REL9.4.1207. The changes allow for the
>>>>>>> proper generation of RPMS for RHEL6 / 7. Before I submit the changes to
>>>>>>> pgrpm, I was wondering if those changes are discussed in the community
>>>>>>> here, or if they're discussed solely with the team that works on the pgrpm
>>>>>>> repository?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd be more than happy to share my changes here if it's worth a
>>>>>>> discussion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> -John
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
>>
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