Re: apache-solr packaging?

On 10/26/2011 01:40 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I took the apache-solr package from Fedora 14, which works and is
> cleanly buildable and installable on Fedora 14 and 15. I then tried to
> compile it under RHEL 5, both with and without JPackage 6.0. Hilarity
> ensued, especially as I tried to build the toolchain for
> lucene-contrib and the toolchain to build *THAT*.

I didn't use the Fedora RPM, but all I had to do was upgrade lucene 2.x 
in JPackage 6 first.

Don't get me wrong---it was a lot of work to upgrade from the 1.3.x 
version because of the additional dependencies.

> I'm delighted you've already published an SRPM for apache-solr-1.3 in
> JPackage 6.0, and look forward to testing the SRPM for 1.4.1. The new

I built 1.4.1 on the JPackage build system. There's some problem with my 
setup and I can't push it at the moment.

There's also a part in the build where I see that it is downloading 
three jars from the net. I assume that Fedora is not building any of the 
contrib stuff. I build everything, but I bundle a couple jars that we 
don't have: carrot2-mini jar and commons-csv.

I can't even find the source code for the commons-csv jar, but it 
apparently builds against the standard Apache version, so I am not even 
sure if that's needed right now.

> 3.4.0 release is substantively different, and would have to await
> another time for me to even look at.

Indeed, 3.x requires (and is developed in tandem with) lucene 3.x, so it 
still makes sense to provide 1.x which is for lucene 2.x.