Build RPMs for scancode

[gk4delltech]

The LSB and ISO Linux was the genisis of the Linux Foundation. The scancode-toolkit needs to live up to the LF standards of portability. Either fix to build or offer noarch RPMs.

[pombredanne]

@gk4delltech Thanks for the report! Do you think you can help contribute RPMs?

[pombredanne]

BTW, I am note sure that scancode "is anti ISO Linux (ie., LSB)" in anyway shape or form I can fathom! ;)

[gk4delltech]

The SPDX workgroup should have a build farm and CI/CD to do this.

[pombredanne]

@gk4delltech

The SPDX workgroup should have a build farm and CI/CD to do this.

I am pretty sure the SPDX workgroup has no such build farm; but even if it did and assuming we could get access to it ( ScanCode is an independent project from SPDX), there is still quite a bit of work that would be required to create, build and test packages on various Linux distros than just having a build farm. This is a lot of work from my personal experience, especially to get all the dependencies packaged as RPMs. Debian folks have chipped in to help there to get everything on Debian and this is not done yet..

Note that there is a super outdated RPM specfile in https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/etc/build/scancode-toolkit.spec and it would need lots of love too IMHO.

[pombredanne]

Let me reopen this. We still need RPMs alright!