Many of my blog posts are actually a “note to self”. Things I write down in order not to forget them. This one even goes a bit further. So save yourself some time and skip it ;-)

10 years ago I started an adventure. Creating an open source SCADA system and a business with that. Having an open source SCADA system was not the business case back then, it was just a side effect.

I just released a new version of the Maven RPM builder. Version 0.6.0 allows one to influence the way the RPM release information is generated during a SNAPSHOT build (also see issue #2).

About half a year back Cédric and I did start a test to see if Mattermost is a valuable tool for the Eclipse community. Failure was an option, since a new tool should bring some benefit to the community.

A few weeks back I wrote a blog post about writing RPM files in plain Java.

What was left over was the fact that the library was not available outside of Package Drone itself. Although it was created as a stand alone functionality you would need to fetch the JAR and somehow integrate it into your build.

The Maven RPM Builder got a few new features. Version 0.3.0 can now:

• Create symbolic links
• Specify pre/post install/remove scripts
• Declare all kinds of dependencies (requires, provides, conflicts, obsoletes)
• And has a much better documentation