[ptp-dev] Fedora build

[Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg (and others) -

  I've just attended a very nice tutorial on PTP at the UCAR SEA conference 
given by Wyatt Spear and Jay Alameda.  It has re-sparked my desire to try to 
get PTP packaged properly for Fedora.

  My current (and hopefully last) issue is building the remotejars feature. 
The build for this downloads pre-built CDT components for various platforms at 
build time.  This is forbidden in the Fedora builders (they do not have 
network access in order to ensure auditable builds).
  What I understand from talking with Jay and Wyatt is that the Remote 
Projects configuration appears to be deprecated in favor of Synchronized 
Projects, so perhaps it would be acceptable to do a build without remotejars 
(which is indeed what I was doing prior to moving to maven/tycho).
  So far I disabled (%pom_disable_module simply comments out entries in the 
pom.xml file):

# Remotejars requires a bunch of downloaded prebuilt stuff
%pom_disable_module rdt/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.core.remotejars
%pom_disable_module releng/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.remotejars-feature
# This depends on remotejars
%pom_disable_module rdt/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.server.dstore
# This depends on rdt.server.dstor
%pom_disable_module releng/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.remotetools-feature

And then commented out org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.remotetools from 
releng/org.eclipse.ptp-feature/feature.xml.

  This appears to build and be generally usable.  I'm not entirely sure what 
functionality is missing at this point.

  Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated.

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