Lifecycle Plugin Development Assistance Request

["Allison, Bob" <ro...@qwest.com>]

I am working on a plugin to create a life cycle plugin to build RPMs.
As things stand right now, I have a plugin which defines the RPM life
cycle and contains mojos which just generate a warning so I know they
were called.  I have a project which uses packaging of rpm; running "m2
package" on that project runs the rpm mojos correctly.  (YEA!!)

Now comes the hard part:  making things work.  I would appreciate any
pointers, hints, suggestions, examples, etc., on how to do the
following:
-- I need a complex configuration in the POM to define the files which
need to be placed in the RPM; I have a pointer which was posted to the
developer's list on Monday on this so I think I have a reasonable start
on this
-- I would like to be able to have include and exclude lists in the
configuration, but I don't want to have to write the code to filter the
directory tree; any ideas?
-- I need to copy the files into a single directory tree for the
rpmbuild command to use to build the RPM file; is it possible to use the
plexus archiver to assemble the files into a directory and not build a
jar?
-- I was thinking of using the ant rpm task to do the actual work of
building the RPM file; any examples of having one mojo calling another
(assuming that I can access the rpm task from the antrun mojo)?

Thanks for the assistance and keep up the good work!

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Re: Lifecycle Plugin Development Assistance Request

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

Allison, Bob wrote:

>I am working on a plugin to create a life cycle plugin to build RPMs.
>As things stand right now, I have a plugin which defines the RPM life
>cycle and contains mojos which just generate a warning so I know they
>were called.  I have a project which uses packaging of rpm; running "m2
>package" on that project runs the rpm mojos correctly.  (YEA!!)
>  
>
Cool. We are interested in this plugin as there was an m1 version so if
you'd like to contribute it back please let us know.

>-- I would like to be able to have include and exclude lists in the
>configuration, but I don't want to have to write the code to filter the
>directory tree; any ideas?
>  
>
plexus-utils, org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryScanner. It is used in
other plugins like the compiler and resources I think.

>-- I need to copy the files into a single directory tree for the
>rpmbuild command to use to build the RPM file; is it possible to use the
>plexus archiver to assemble the files into a directory and not build a
>jar?
>  
>
I think someone recently added that as a feature request (possibly with
a patch that I haven't had a chance to review).

>-- I was thinking of using the ant rpm task to do the actual work of
>building the RPM file; any examples of having one mojo calling another
>(assuming that I can access the rpm task from the antrun mojo)?
>  
>
You'd be better off using the ant task via Java.

There is another option here - should we add support for RPM to
plexus-archiver, using the code from Ant?

Note, the future plans for this are to introduce plexus-archiver to
jakarta-commons (there is already a compress module there based on the
same code from Ant).

- Brett

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