http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/examples/executable-jar.html Sweet, kudos for shade-plugin!
Regards. ________________________________________ From: Wido den Hollander [w...@widodh.nl] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:07 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Debian packaging progress Hi, On 11/12/2012 11:10 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > Hi Wido, > > Thanks for sharing, the new packaging idea is better. Keeping the number of > packages low would be great as long as the functionality provided is not > affected. > Are we then going to rename the packages as cloudstack-*? Not sure about > breaking symlinking, it would be great for future releases but will affect > upgrade scenarios. > Yes, I'm going to rename them to cloudstack-*. Ofcourse will reducing the number of packages nog affect the functionality for the end-user. > Lastly, I want to share an idea to rename all cloudstack dependencies, we > used to install using the cloud-deps pkg, with a cloudstack-deps or > cloud-deps prefix so say there is a pkg axiom.jar preinstalled on a system, > won't fail our installation of cloudstack as one of the pkgs (say cloud-deps) > wanted to install the same pkg in the same location. Keep us posted. > I'm trying to get rid of all those dependencies. By packaging them into the JAR of the Agent for example we prevent that. Take a look at the maven shade plugin :) Wido > Regards. > > ________________________________________ > From: Wido den Hollander [w...@widodh.nl] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:54 PM > To: <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Debian packaging progress > > Hi, > > Last week at ApacheCon Hugo and I discussed the Deb and RPM packaging > following up on the work which was done in the Maven RPM branch. > > The RPM packaging now partially works, but it still needs improvement. > > We discussed multiple ideas, but we figured it would be best to use the > maven-shade-plugin and create on JAR file for for example the Agent with > all the runtime dependencies in there. > > This makes life much easier and also makes sure we have all the deps we > need. > > The client/UI goes into one big WAR file which also has it's > dependencies in it for the same reason. > > As I'm going offline for about a month I'll be working on this locally > when I have some spare time. > > I don't say this is final, but I'll try to push a new branch later on > with the proposed fixes so we can discuss if we like this for our Deb > and RPM packaging. > > As far as I can see now we can ditch the cloud-agent-libs, > cloud-agent-deps and cloud-deps packages, but probably also cloud-utils. > > We can reduce the number of packages and individual dependencies, so > that should be a bonus. > > Other than that I want to prevent us symlinking from /etc to > /usr/share/cloud/management since that breaks all rules regarding > configuration. > > This is just a FYI to let you know I'm working on it. > > Wido >
