On Wednesday 14 of January 2009 18:07:20 Putrycz, Erik wrote: Hi,
I read http://en.opensuse.org/Java/Packaging/Cookbook and it states "the convient approach in Linux distribution is use of the system jars" for third party jars.
those rules are derived from jpackage.org standards. The jpackage.org is something like upstream for Java rpm packages and almost every rpm distribution is compatible with it.
I don't know if you are aware of the maven repository but packaging third party jars in rpm manually is currently a little redundant.
Yes, we are. But not only we (as SUSE), but jpackage folks too. So there's a big discussion about how to integrate a maven to jpackage.org project and remove many of manual packaging and installing. If you are interested in that, please subscribe a jpackage-discuss (and read the archives [1]). I suggest to start with [2] [1] https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/ [2] https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2008-November/013124.html
Wouldn't it make more sense to integrate somehow the maven repository to zipper and be able to retrieve dependencies from a java program from maven?
This sounds interesting and a first step should be a build a maven from jpackage.org in a BuildService and add the package(s) to SUSE ;). If you would like to participate, feel free contact me. Best regards Michal Vyskocil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org