User:Mziaei1/eclipse/fedora package/process

References

• Eclipse-fedorapackager-project on fedorahosted
• Eclipse Plugins Packaging
• Packaging references list
• Maximum RPM
• Package_Source_Control
• Eclipse_Fedora_Packager_User_Guide
• Package Maintainers
• Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
• Eclipse_How_to_Maintain_Fedora_Package_User_Guide
• New_package_process_for_existing_contributors
• ReviewGuidelines
• Alex Kurtakov packages
• All about %prep/%setup

Case Study

• Review-Request Mylyn-context - Mylyn - build (Severin Gehwolf)
• new package SCM request
• git
• Alex Kurtakov packages

Mercurial Eclipse

• Clone the source from javaforge using hg clone http://javaforge.com:8000/hgeclipse
• Create an archive of the latest release source: how to create an archive of a specific tag in mercurial

hg archive -r RELEASE_1.8.1 --type=tar ../mercurialeclipse_1-8-1.tar.bz2

problem with this ccommand:

type=tar caused problem while decompressing the tar ball with pde-script, so we can just archive as a regular folder

It's better to keep the name of the folder as just mercurial then we will put it in a folder called eclipse-mercurial

so the new command is: hg archive -r RELEASE_1.8.1 ../eclipse-mercurial/mercurial

• Create a new feature in Eclipse using New -> feature

• Add this feature id to %build in .spec file in -f option

Don't need to add -d (dependencies) for now, until it complains

Added mylyn as the dependency later

• Create an archive file of the feature then add it to the SOURCES in RPM project.

you may need to add that to the %prep in .spec file.

In the old version, I added the feature as a source and used this %prep to unpack everything:

     %setup 
     %setup -T -D -a 1

• After making sure it works,

I put the com.vectrace.mercurialeclipse-feature plugin folder in eclipse-mercurial folder.

eclipse-mercurial also contains mercurial folder

use this command to create the tar ball: tar -cf eclipse-mercurial-R_1_0_0.tar.bz2 eclipse-mercurial

using -cf option instead of -cjf prevents causing the extract problem for pde-script (some times it complained that it couldn't remove the folder eclipse-mercurial because it was not empty, after compressing using -cf option, didn't complain anymore)

• To install the package

Install for the first time:

cd PATH/TO/RPMS/IN/RPM-PROEJCT/noarch/

rpm -i eclipse-mercurial-R_1_0_0.noarch.rpm

Install the updated packages

Yum remove eclipse-mercurial-R_1_0_0

again rpm -i....

This will created a folder called mercurial in /usr/share/eclipse/dropins which will contain the feature.xml