Re: SystemTapGui v1.0-0 is available

[William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>]

anithra wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> As per our discussion, I'm attaching the spec file that was used to 
> build the rpms.
>
> I've uploaded the SystemTapGui-1.0-0.src.rpm to Sourceforge - 
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=169234&package_id=193079&release_id=635299 
>
> The source tar ball is also available on Sourceforge.
>
> I will be out of office from Nov 2nd - 16th and will not have access to 
> email. If there are any problems/queries i will reply as soon as i get 
> back.
>
> Thanks for taking a look,
>
> Regards,
> Anithra.


Hi Anithra,

I did a quick look through the RPM packaging for SystemTapGui. There
is lots of useful information about Fedora packaging at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/KernelModules
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java

The RPM should have any dependencies required for installation.  The
only requires in the specfile seen is:

Requires: java

There are some other requires that should be listed for Java packages.
Looking through the README there is also a a requirement for
systemtap. There is also description of building things from source
for Eclipse. That should be a part of the rpmbuild build process to
build all those jar files in stapguiclient/plugins/. Looking in that
directory there are something like 30+MB of jar files and those
appeared to be packaged as part of the source tarball. The following
link mentions not including prebuilt jars:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java#Pre-built_JAR_files_.2F_Other_bundled_software

-Will