On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 10:02, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Incidentally, the DEB without JDK could be distributable via ASF, but > > > maybe we'd get complaints about the lack of RPM, etc.?! :-) > > > > there used to be a tool called alien which could convert between several > > package formats. But I can't even find it in the arch repo right now. > > I know alien, although got to be 15+ years since I used if for > anything. It's still in Ubuntu repos. > > For the community deb this would be better done by adapting the > NBPackage deb task though - ...
Just to follow up on this conversation, we now have a PR for NBPackage from Javier Llorente to do just this. https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/pull/54 Couple of minor things to address, but that should enable a DEB and RPM without JDK, and therefore distributable by ASF, if we want? I've also been looking at some changes and tidying up of the NBPackage project so we could have a release vote on it - something I'd like to do either way at some point, but particularly before suggesting we use it for a binary release of NetBeans here. https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/pull/56 Any thoughts on this? Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
