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Created attachment 337060 [details] app-misc/elasticsearch-bin-0.20.3.ebuild Hmm, unfortunate that they only provide their versions in binary; which means we either need to create a binary package and/or capture snapshots from their repository to create a package that compiles from source. Wrote a binary package to start with to see how this works out, not sure if I got it all right so take this with a grain of salt; for that reason KEYWORDS is empty and if you want to test it you need to add app-misc/elasticsearch-bin-0.20.3 to /etc/portage/package.accept. The first issue I spot is that brings along some libraries, this is often not done and you would want the package to depend on libraries provided through other packages Portage and not through the package itself. There is still some work to do here: >>> /usr/lib64/elasticsearch-0.20.3.jar >>> /usr/lib64/jna-3.3.0.jar >>> /usr/lib64/jts-1.12.jar >>> /usr/lib64/log4j-1.2.17.jar >>> /usr/lib64/lucene-analyzers-3.6.2.jar >>> /usr/lib64/lucene-core-3.6.2.jar >>> /usr/lib64/lucene-highlighter-3.6.2.jar >>> /usr/lib64/lucene-memory-3.6.2.jar >>> /usr/lib64/lucene-queries-3.6.2.jar >>> /usr/lib64/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar >>> /usr/lib64/spatial4j-0.3.jar >>> /usr/lib64/libsigar-amd64-linux.so Still a QA notice left during the ebuild, which I assume we need to report upstream (every file in that folder has this): * QA Notice: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME * /usr/lib64/libsigar-amd64-linux.so Gave it a shot, throws three log4j warnings on launch as well: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (node). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. The localhost URL listed in their guide seems accessible so at least the basis of it is confirmed to work.
Also, do you know of a better category to put this package in? I assumed by the Applications category that this was an application therefore I have chosen app-misc at first; but from the idea I get of this I think it feels more like a web server, do you think this would fit better in www-servers? Or is it not really a server?
This is awesome! Thanks for the quick response. In terms of category I'm not really sure where to put it. It's not quite couchdb (dev-db) and it's not quite memcached (net-misc). I'd probably go with net-misc if it were me. Additionly, I'd like to see it in connection with init/conf scripts for sane startup. My ultimate goal is to use this in conjunction with logstash (#447192) in a datacenter environment. Once the data is stored I'd like to get Kibana (no bug yet: http://kibana.org/index.html) as a frontend to all the data stored in elasticsearch. I'll test this ebuild out and anxiously await an init script. Thanks!
I went ahead and put together some ebuilds with init scripts. Overlay available here: https://github.com/travisghansen/chaos Seems to be working great so far. Now time for logstash.
Travis, Thomas, thank you for your work. Sorry that it took a while to take this one on. +*elasticsearch-0.90.6 (07 Nov 2013) + + 07 Nov 2013; Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +elasticsearch-0.90.6.ebuild, + +files/elasticsearch.conf, +files/elasticsearch.init, + +files/elasticsearch.service, +metadata.xml: + Initial commit, initial ebuild by Tom Wijsman with further tweaks by Travis + G. Hansen around systemd compatibility and traditional init scripts. Silenced + QA warnings for pre-built components. To confirm, I will be maintaining this package in Gentoo and am open to any further tweaks you wish to make. Could you file these as a new bug please.
Thanks Tony! Next up is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447192 :)
