[THRIFT-4097] Support for Fedora / CentOS / RHEL distribution - packaging and CI builds

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Build Process, Wish List
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: James E. King III
• Created: 21/Feb/17 01:54
• Updated: 14/Jan/19 21:02

Description

Based on discussions elsewhere for thrift on fedora (they were on version 0.9.1) here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385702

It was suggested that if the thrift project build packages for fedora it would improve adoption on rpm based systems. They also said that currently the only thing in the distribution that uses thrift is accumulo.

There is a rpm .spec file in contrib/ that should be promoted and maintained.

Issue Links

• is related to: THRIFT-4442 release 0.11.0 to https://bintray.com/apache/thrift (RHEL)
• is related to: THRIFT-2333 RPMBUILD: Abort build if user did not disable ruby but ruby build will fail later on
• relates to: THRIFT-4071 Consolidate the Travis CI jobs where possible to put less stress on the Apache Foundation's allocation of CI build slaves