[DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Christopher
RPM/DEB building in Maven is currently quite convoluted. There's some question as to whether we should even be performing this task or whether we should defer to downstream maintainers for system packaging. Whether or not we continue supporting RPM/DEB binary packages or if we defer that to

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Mike Drob
+1 g On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Christopher ctubb...@apache.org wrote: RPM/DEB building in Maven is currently quite convoluted. There's some question as to whether we should even be performing this task or whether we should defer to downstream maintainers for system packaging. Whether

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread John Vines
I opt for g- lets rip them out now. They're horrendous in their current state. Realistically we should have our debs/rpms based off a tarball, not so tightly integrated with each module of maven. So it makes sense for there to be something downstream which can use a tarball and spits out an rpm

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Eric Newton
+1 g I hate working on packaging. My customers don't want the current packaging. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:29 PM, John Vines vi...@apache.org wrote: I opt for g- lets rip them out now. They're horrendous in their current state. Realistically we should have our debs/rpms based off a tarball,

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Sean Busbey
+1 g I like decoupling our build/release from packaging specific issues. +0 e If Christopher or someone else wants to use a contrib repo to manage the packaging of Accumulo for some specific system, I think that's a fine thing for a contrib repo to do. -1 a-d, f I don't want to delay 1.6 for

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Allen
+1 g My $0.02: when I first started to use Accumulo (a little over a year ago), I naively installed the RPM first, thinking, It's an RPM, it must be easier! Turns out it wasn't easier, and it was in fact completely wrong. If the community can't stand behind the packaging it creates as first

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Billie Rinaldi
+1 to g On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Christopher ctubb...@apache.org wrote: RPM/DEB building in Maven is currently quite convoluted. There's some question as to whether we should even be performing this task or whether we should defer to downstream maintainers for system packaging.

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Alex Moundalexis
+1 g (non-binding) consolidated packaging efforts are usually far better than one-off attempts, plus it'll clean up the repo a little bit On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Christopher ctubb...@apache.org wrote: RPM/DEB building in Maven is currently quite convoluted. There's some question as

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Christopher
Okay, so it sounds like there's a pretty big backing to rip this out. I'll create a JIRA and remove them from the main build. I'll probably set up a repo on github to maintain a SPEC file for building RPMs from the binary tarball, for now. We can consider incorporating them as a contrib project

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop RPM/DEB packaging from maven build

2014-04-01 Thread Christopher
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2606 -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Christopher ctubb...@apache.org wrote: Okay, so it sounds like there's a pretty big backing to rip this out. I'll create a JIRA and remove them from the