Re: Bundling ActiveMQ version 5.x in RPM

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:50 AM, David Walluck <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 08:07 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> 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).
>
> JPackage has a policy that it should be built from source, but it might
> work for your personal needs.

That seems a reasonable policy. It's clearly not enforced fo the
"non-free" packages, but I see those are handled rather differently.

Unfortunately, I see that the current ActiveMQ release build with
Maven, and the Apache published .pod for it has a maven 2.0.9
dependency built right into it, and goes out to the Internet at large
to grab losts of different components when running "mvn install" on
it. The result is is, to my mind fragile because it's grabbing
components from offsite and of unknown provenance, just as Perl's CPAN
utilities tend to grab components which may not be compatible with the
existing environment.

The results are troublesome.