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FedoraEPELPackagingNB

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or RHEL) - Packaging of the NetBeans

Contents


Overview

This page accumulates info about effort in the scope of the EPEL to create software packages of the NetBeans that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs such as CentOS or Scientific Linux.

Goals

A NetBeans IDE 6.1 configuration with reduced set of the modules to limit number of external dependencies is intended to be packaged for RHEL.

Assumptions


Analysis

Required Software Packages

The tables below establish relations between required software package, RHEL 5 Package (if any) and owner(s) of corresponding package in Fedora (if it is useful). Both build-time dependencies and run-time dependencies for the chosen configuration of the NetBeans have been taken into account.

Notation

#1 Public CentOS package repository has been used to investigate accessibility of the software on the RHEL 5 platform.

#2 Fedora/EPEL is upstream for RHEL or it can be used as the upstream.

DONE in cells of the column Current Status means that target is reached and any additional actions aren't required.

For NetBeans Platform

Software Package RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
#3 OpenJDK 6 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2 lkundrak,
co-maintainer: langel (Awaiting Review) 		DONE
{{{1}}}
#4 Ant 1.7.1
ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2.src.rpm 1 NEED TO BE UPGRADED
Showstopper:
a) EPEL is not an upstream for the RHEL from viewpoint of the Ant software, AFAIU RHEL itself provides it by using JPackage effort.
b) EPEL/FAQ says:
Q: Does EPEL replace packages provided within Red Hat Enterprise Linux or layered products?
A: No

Therefore, we can't use "traditional" Fedora procedure to upgrade version up to 1.7.1. 		Subpackages of Ant are also required: ant-junit, ant-nodeps, ant-trax
#5 JUnit 3.8.2 junit-3.8.2-3jpp.1.src.rpm 1 DONE
#6 swing-layout 1.0
NOT EXISTS 1
lkundrak
He is not in both lists EPEL/ContributorStatusNo and EPEL/ContributorStatusNo
He is (co-)maintainer of 129 packages 		doable 2
Communication with the package owner is needed.
All required packages exist. 		Can we avoid this dependency if OpenJDK is installed?
See alsoWhat is the Swing Layout Extensions library (swing-layout) and why do I need it?.
#7 javahelp2 2.0.05
NOT EXISTS 1
jtulach doable 2
Communication with the package owner is needed.
All required packages exist.
jna 3.0.2 jna 3.0.4 2 DONE


For NetBeans IDE

See netbeans.spec

Software Package 8 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
JUnit4 4.3.1
The junit4 NOT EXISTS 2
fnasser
He is not in both lists EPEL/ContributorStatusNo and EPEL/ContributorStatusNo
He is (co-)maintainer of 14 packages,
co-maintainer: dwalluck 		doable 2
Communication with the package owner is needed.
Extra requirements of the package need to be investigated, i.e. (B)R.
lucene 2.3.0
lucene-1.4.3-1jpp.16.src.rpm 1 NEED TO BE UPGRADED
{{error|Showstopper:
a) EPEL is not an upstream for the RHEL from viewpoint of the lucene software, AFAIU RHEL itself provides it by using JPackage effort.
b) EPEL/FAQ says:
Q: Does EPEL replace packages provided within Red Hat Enterprise Linux or layered products?
A: No

Therefore, we can't use "traditional" Fedora procedure to upgrade version up to 2.3.0.
netbeans-javaparser
NOT EXISTS
victorv doable 2
#10 xerces-j2 2.7.1 xerces-j2-2.7.1-7jpp.2.src.rpm 1 DONE
appframework 1.03
NOT EXISTS
victorv doable 2
beansbinding 1.2.1
NOT EXISTS
victorv doable 2
freemarker 2.3.8
NOT EXISTS
victorv doable 2
jsch 0.1.24 jsch-0.1.28-1jpp.5.src.rpm 1 DONE
netbeans-resolver
NOT EXISTS
victorv doable 2
ini4j 0.3.2-4
NOT EXISTS
victorv
doable with 0.2.6? 2
The version 0.3.2 requires maven2 >= 2.0.4 and a set of the maven2 plugins, but actually the NetBeans requires version 0.2.6 that uses Ant instead.
netbeans-svnclientadapter
NOT EXISTS
victorv doable 2
jakarta-commons-logging 1.0.4 jakarta-commons-logging-1.0.4-6jpp.1.src.rpm 1 DONE


#8 The table above doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the table Required Software Packages For NetBeans Platform, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3
  • Ant 1.7.1 4
  • JUnit 3.8.2 5
  • swing-layout 1.0 6
  • javahelp2 2.0.05 7

For Ant 1.7.1

This table takes into account that the ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 package is already integrated with RHEL.

Software Package 9 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
jaxp_transform_impl (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
ant (any version) ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2.src.rpm 1 DONE
xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis (any version)
NOT EXISTS 1
antlr (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
bsf (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
xml-commons-resolver12 (any version)
NOT EXISTS 1
jakarta-commons-logging (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
jakarta-commons-net (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
jai (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
bcel (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
log4j (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
oro (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
regexp (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
javamail >= 0:1.2-5jpp DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
jaf >= 0:1.0.1-5jpp DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
jdepend (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
jsch (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires it too
 %{_bindir}/perl (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires /usr/bin/perl
 %{_bindir}/python (any version) DONE ant-1.6.5-2jpp.2 requires /usr/bin/python


#9 The table doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 0:1.5.0) EXISTS
  • JUnit (any version) 5 EXISTS
  • xerces-j2 (any version) 10 EXISTS

For swing-layout 2

Note, the swing-layout.spec for Fedora 10 assumes that gcj is used to build the package by default - " Use rpmbuild --without gcj to disable gcj bits ".

Software Package 11 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
dos2unix (any version) dos2unix-3.1-27.1.src.rpm DONE


#11 The table doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1.3, java >= 1.3) EXISTS
  • Ant 4 (any version) EXISTS

For javahelp2 2.0.05 2

Software Package 12 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
jsp >= 0:2.0 Provided by tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5.i386.rpm 1 DONE


#12 The table doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (any version)

For JUnit4 4.3.1 2

junit4.spec

Software Package 13 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
hamcrest (any version)
NOT EXISTS


#13 The table doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (any version) EXISTS

For lucene 2.3.0

lucene.spec 2.3.1 for Fedora 10.

Software Package 14 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
javacc (any version) javacc-4.0-3jpp.3.src.rpm 1 DONE
jline (any version)
NOT EXISTS
jtidy (any version)
NOT EXISTS
regexp (any version) regexp-1.4-2jpp.2.src.rpm 1 DONE
commons-digester (any version) jakarta-commons-digester-1.7-5jpp.1.src.rpm 1 DONE


#14 The table doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS
  • JUnit (any version) 5 EXISTS

For netbeans-javaparser

netbeans-javaparser.spec for Fedora 10 2

Extra packages aren't required additionally to the listed ones in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS

For appframework 1.03

appframework.spec for Fedora 10 2

Extra packages aren't required additionally to the listed ones in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS
  • swing-layout 1.0 6

For beansbinding 1.2.1

beansbinding.spec for Fedora 10 2

Extra packages aren't required additionally to the listed ones in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS

For freemarker 2.3.8

freemarker.spec for Fedora 10 2

Software Package 15 RHEL 5 Package Owner Current Status Comments
avalon-logkit >= 1.2 avalon-logkit-1.2-4jpp.3.src.rpm 1
dom4j >= 1.6.1
NOT EXISTS
emma >= 2.0
NOT EXISTS
jaxen >= 1.1
NOT EXISTS
jdom >= 1.0 jdom-1.0-4jpp.1.src.rpm 1 DONE
jython >= 2.2.1
NOT EXISTS
rhino >= 1.6
NOT EXISTS
struts >= 1.2.9 struts-1.2.9-4jpp.5.src.rpm 1 DONE
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api >= 5.5.26
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5.i386.rpm UPGRADE?
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api >= 5.5
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5.i386.rpm UPGRADE?
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api >= 6.0
NOT EXISTS 1
Restricting features of the freemarker package?
tomcat6-lib >= 6.0.16
NOT EXISTS 1
Restricting features of the freemarker package?
xalan-j2 >= 2.7.0 xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.1.src.rpm 1 DONE


#15 The table doesn't duplicate software packages listed in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS
  • JUnit (any version) 5 EXISTS
  • dos2unix EXISTS
  • javacc >= 4.0 EXISTS
  • log4j >= 1.2 EXISTS

For netbeans-resolver

netbeans-resolver.spec for Fedora 10 2

Extra packages aren't required additionally to the listed ones in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS
  • dos2unix EXISTS

For ini4j

Additional investigations against ini4j, version 0.2.6 are required

For netbeans-svnclientadapter

netbeans-svnclientadapter.spec for Fedora 10 2

Extra packages aren't required additionally to the listed ones in the previous tables, including:

  • OpenJDK 6 3 (java-devel >= 1:1.6.0, java >= 1:1.6.0) EXISTS
  • Ant 1.7.1 4 (>= 0:1.6) EXISTS

For xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis (any version)

For xml-commons-resolver12 (any version)

For jsp 2.0 (any version)

For hamcrest (any version)

For jline (any version)

For jtidy (any version)

For dom4j 1.6.1

For emma 2.0

For jaxen 1.1

For jython 2.2.1

For rhino 1.6

For tomcat6

Additional investigations against freemarker, version 2.3.8 are required. Is it possible to avoid dependencies on both tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api and tomcat6-lib? If yes then tomcat6 is not required.


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