Bundling ActiveMQ version 5.x in RPM

Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.jpackage.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
I've taken a look at the relatively old activemq4 RPM, and I'm shaking
my head at the web of dependencies. Since I'm working in RHEL 5 right
now, bringing in all those dependencies and reworking them to build
ActiveMQ version 5 is begging to sprain a frontal lobe, but I've got
someone who'd really benefit from getting ActiveMQ into RHEL package
management.

The Apache ActiveMQ site is bundling up version 5.4.2 as an
installable .zip. I've taken some steps with the old activemq4.spec
file and re-written it to simply install the .zip contents. Is this
unreasonble? If I can verify it, should I work with this or is there
any policy to build from source if at all possible (which will be one
heck of a lot more work).
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