I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8. There is still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get the maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved.
Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to implement some additional features:
* provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files
* virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will especially help with the requiring of sub-modules
* virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any sub-module(s) that are included
* virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files' "dependencies[]" entries) -- this will help simplify spec files
* formalized packaging guidelines
I must give major credit for the auto provides and requires to the nodejs and npm package owners as I took a lot from their setup.
Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will not be ready for Fedora for a good while. I am doing all of my work out of GitHub. If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the links below:
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Shawn Iwinski
Sr. Software Applications Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
IRC: siwinski
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