[CentOS-devel] How to build maven packages in CBS?

[Rich Megginson]

On 06/21/2016 06:21 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/20/2016 06:35 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 06/20/2016 04:13 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
>>> On 06/20/2016 11:54 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>> On 06/20/2016 04:41 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
>>>>> On 06/20/2016 11:33 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>>>> Are there any instructions/examples about how to use `cbs
>>>>>> maven-build/maven-chain`?
>>>>> Maven support is not enabled in CentOS CBS, AFAIK.
>>>>>
>>>> Correct .. although there is an SCL version of maven out there.  No idea
>>>> how it works in cbs though.
>>> Maven in SCL (maven30, rh-maven33) is packaged as traditional RPMs.
>>> These packages are built the same way as any ordinary CentOS or SCL
>>> package (with build/chain-build).
>>>
>> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=11073 support maven builds
> I'll let others discuss this here, but I don't like doing it that way
> because it makes it very hard to reproduce outside CBS.
>
> You end up with packages that other people have no idea the packages
> that are required to get a build or source code required to get the
> packages if packages are even used.
>
> If we can create a mechanism where others can reproduce this
> buildroot/area external to our koji instance and provide all the
> necessary documentation so it can also be easily reproduced by the
> community, then I could likely be convinced.

I think if we do that for CBS, it will have to be done that way, for 
exactly the reasons you mention.  Would you add that as a comment to the 
bug, or would you mind if I did? https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=11073

>
> IMHO, one of the most important things we do as a community distribution
> is produce the ability to do these things for the community as well.
>
> But, I am sure I can be convinced this is a good idea.
>
> What does Fedora do?
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