Re: apache-solr packaging?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:34 AM, David Walluck <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 04:10 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi Niko,
>>
>> are you creating a new rpm package for solr?
>> I didn't know of any JPP apache-solr pakage so far, but we cold do it together, if you wish.
>
> I imported version 1.3.0 from Red Hat into the JPackage CVS. I didn't
> find any pre-existing version.

Thanks! That's a good starting point. There's an apache-solar-1.4.1 in
Fedora 14, as well. I've worked from the Fedora 14 package on Fedora
15, and it builds nicely. On RHEL 6, it enters dependency hell with
varios lucene dependencies and requires some JPackage 6 components not
in RHEL 6, but the difference between the standard ".noarch"
architectures and "x86_64" of RHEL 6.1's internal packages causes real
RPM dependency adventures which I've not had time to pursue.

On RHEL 5.x, it's dependency hell with sprinkles on top, even with
JPackage 6 enabled. It's livinig testament to why the "we can just
backport that to our stable OS" breaks down so badly when you try to
use leading edge tools. And I'm afraid a lot of it is going to be
wasted, because apache-solr-3.4.0 is out with a very distinct
dependency tree.