Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (168 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Johannes Weberhofer <jweberhofer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2012-04-20 13:13]:
> Some tine ago I started to package Apache Geronimo. After a few days, I'd 
> stopped, because there are around 400 jars packaged; some sources need 
> additional sources just for packaging/compiling.
> It would have taken month to build that with the resources I can spend. 
> Currently I'm building the package from the Apache binaries and do not offer 
> the package via the obs. It's sometimes very frustrating, because even when 
> some of the packages have already been built for suse, the versions do not 
> match with the required versions.
> I'd very much love to package binary jars for some projects. But I also 
> understand, that it doesn't fit to the build-service philosophy. Couldn't we 
> have a special repository, where such kind of packages are allowed?

How are binary jars different from statically linked binaries and
private library copies which are rightfully outlawed. Having a
package with 400 inlined jars sounds like a nightmare, are the
packager or upstream closely monitoring 400 upstream projects for
security issues?
-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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