Re: Request Tracker's Massive Dependencies -- RPM-ified?

On Mar 16 août 2005 02:23, Steve Bonds wrote:
> FreshRPMs Folks:
>
> I'm about to embark on building RPMs for all of RequestTracker's
> horrible dependencies, and if things go well, for RequestTracker
> itself.  Has anyone else already done (or attempted) this?

RT3 is currently being packaged in FE, so it'll probably be available for
FC4+. Reviewing all the perl dependencies is a long process.

A lot of people have rpm-ified RT at one time or another (me among
others). The problem is not doing it but doing it cleanly and
maintaining/updating the huge pile of resulting packages afterwards.
Usually people do the initial packaging, and by the time they're finished
they're so fed up with RT they don't take the time to clean up their
packages or update them afterwards.

Therefore, I seriously advice against doing it alone outside a project
where you'll be able to spread the load. The most cost-effective approach
right now would be to join the FE effort, help hasten the
packaging/review/test process for FE devel, and then port/adapt the result
to whatever RHEL/Centos/FC version you intend to use.

A quick and dirty RT packaging will be quicker, but in six months you'll
be banging your head against walls for not doing it properly. At least
that's my experience with this process.

You've been warned.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot