[asterisk-scf-dev] Packaging and AsteriskSCF

[Paul Belanger]

On 11-06-27 01:52 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> On 06/27/2011 11:18 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
>> On 11-06-27 07:06 AM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>>> On 06/26/2011 03:34 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:
>>>> Greeting!
>>>>
>>>> I had some free time this weekend, so I decided to look and see what
>>>> was
>>>> required to package some of the dependencies use by AsteriskSCF.
>>>>
>>>> I decided to start with zeroc-ice, since this package already exists
>>>> upstream in Debian unstable. Right now Debian support 3.4.1, talking to
>>>> the maintainer of the package 3.4.2 should be release this week. So I
>>>> spend a few hour on Friday night / Saturday morning, packaging[1]
>>>> 3.4.2.
>>>>
>>>> Now that zeroc-ice 3.4.2 was packaged, I then create a tarball from the
>>>> Digium version of ice in git and started work to package it. Again,
>>>> after a few hours of hacking I've successfully created zeroc-ice
>>>> packages from the version in the Digium git repo. :)
>>>>
>>>> There we're some differences in java/build.xml between the two
>>>> versions,
>>>> however I've patched the Digium version and reverted some changes to
>>>> icegridadmin.
>>>
>>> The differences between our version and the upstream version were
>>> intentional, so can you explain what you changed?
>>>
>> The change was pretty minimal, see attached. I choose to re-enable it so
>> I didn't have to modify the debian/ packaging too much. There was also
>> an issue with cross-compiling i386 from an amd64 host, which I have
>> worked around. Work still needs to be done to confirm Digium specific
>> change to ICE are being installed by the packages.
>
> That change was made to the icegridadmin build because there is no
> JGoodies Common package available in any released version of Debian or
> Ubuntu (and probably most other distros except Fedora), so since
> Asterisk SCF doesn't use IceGrid at this point, it was easier to just
> disable building icegridadmin.
>
Understood, libjgoodies-common-java was added to Debian[1] a few months 
ago, both testing and unstable.  I'm not sure the status for Fedora.

As an update for this thread, Digium's slice translator plugins is now 
packaged too :)  Again, it still needs to be tested.

[1] 
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=libjgoodies-common-java

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