Hi, I'm trying to take over the downstream packaging for thrift in Fedora and EPEL, and having some difficulties to get everything built correctly.
The previous package maintainer had packaged 0.9.1, but had a number of patches and supplemental source files that were needed to fix some things. In particular, the official source tarball release does not contain everything needed to build the project. It is missing the bootstrap.sh file, so we're having to pull that directly from the repository mirror on GitHub in order to build from source. This is problematic... even your own build instructions say to use this file to build from source: http://thrift.apache.org/docs/BuildingFromSource Is this a known issue? Will future thrift releases contain the full source code to build from, or will it continue to ship only generated sources to bootstrap the build, due to an intentional choice? The next problem area is that the previous maintainer had been building libfb303 from the contrib directory and shipping it as a sub-package (secondary RPM built from the same source). Now, I'm not sure what fb303 is (none of my projects have ever used it), but we had previously been retrieving it's corresponding POM file from the Maven Central repository, since it doesn't appear to be included in the tarball (at least for 0.9.1). Now that we're on 0.10.0, I figured I'd have to do the same, but it looks like nobody ever deployed fb303 0.10.0 to Maven Central on the last release. Is this something you're planning on doing? Is this even an actively maintained contrib project? Maybe I should just stop packaging it, and stick to packaging the main thrift bits. If there's any interest in testing, or improving the Fedora packaging for thrift, I welcome the assistance from the existing thrift developers. Downstream packaging is a great way to make thrift available to a wider audience, as well as a great way to understand what you need to do to improve the build system. It's also a great way to ensure integration with the latest build tools and runtime libraries that desktop users are likely to have on their modern OS installs. Thanks! -- Christopher