[Mageia-sysadm] maven and possible bootstrap.

Tue Apr 26 23:48:35 CEST 2011

On 26 April 2011 21:59, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 17:10 +0200, Dexter Morgan a écrit :
+>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>> >>> I have a proposal that can looks dirty but we could just unlock very soon.
+>> >>>
+>> >>> 1 - make a chroot, install the rpms for fedora maven, plexus.
+>> >>> 2 - change the src.rpm so they are OK in mageia and rebuild them.
+>> >>> 3 - put the rpms in the repo
+>> >>> 4 - launch a rebuild rpms for them to be in rebuild _all_ mageia.
+>> >>
+>> >> That sound ok, provided that you mean what I understood. After all,
+>> >> that's the way we  bootstrap lots of stuff.
+>> >
+>> > Almost done :)
+>> >
+>> > Only netbean is missing for a rebuild, but there is a bug in netbean
+>> > and it doesn't build with icedtea.
+>> > With boklm we will handle the add of all this in mageia after beta2 is
+>> > out and then we will have an up to date java stack.
+>> >
+>>
+>> All is done now, we now have a brand new java stack ( maven 3 / plexus
+>> / netbeans / and oter gifts ), thks to the help of fedora java  team.
+>>
+>> Inclusion in mageia is planned for wednesday.
+>
+> I think you should have sent this to -dev too, given it broke some
+> packages like scilab, etc.
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+
+IIRC scilab was broken before this boostrap was announced at all.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+