Linux Packaging Tasks

This page contains a list of packaging tasks need some love. Feel free to add tasks for your own distro, creating common tasks where appropriate.

Common

• Create an Extension Point to the JDT for contributing source foramatting configurations. This would allow the various linux distros to include GNU formatting conventions without the need for patches.

• Investigate and create a way for src zips to be automatically attached to external jars when they are added to the build path of a project. These src zips are useful for debugging and browsing the source of these external jars. See this thread for some more information: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2006-November/msg00023.html

• get update site in homedir patch applied to Eclipse https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90630

• specfile template generator application. Andrew Overholt has started working on this but if you would like to help, feel free to contact him.

• update package build for 3.2 and see if we can automatically build native code with it. Ben Konrath is planning to do this but feel free to contact him if you'd like to help.

Fedora Eclipse

• Fix the various TODOs on the FHS_Compliant_Packages page
  • Fix bug #162798
  • It would be nice if the launcher source zip could be removed from org.eclipse.platform.source_3.2.1 or the patch could be made in such a way that it would not produce arch-dependent source code. This might not be possible.
  • Investigate why the resources in the icu4j plugin are generated differently on different architectures. If the icu4j build is removed from the Eclipse package and Eclipse merely requires the icu4j plugins, this shouldn't be a problem anymore.
  • Investigate why the HTML is generated differently on different architectures by gjdoc in org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv_3.2.1.
  • Investigate why WEB-INF/web.xml is generated differently on different architectures in org.eclipse.help.webapp_3.2.1.

• Help out with the various Fedora Eclipse bugs