On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:33:00AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 15/04/2015 05:28, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > I am running the Tomcat manager application via a Debian package > > (tomcat8-admin), which deploys the webapp from > > /usr/share/tomcat8-admin/manager. We ran into a problem hitting th > > maximum upload size (configured as the multipart-config element in the > > HTMLManager servlet block). This is easy to fix if you're willing to > > edit Debian-packaged files, but this is incorrect: files in /usr/share > > are owned exclusively by dpkg. Is there a way to override this element > > from somewhere in tomcat's conf directory (which is symlinked to > > /etc/tomcat8 in Debian)? > > No. The web application setting would take priority. Okay, thanks for confirming. > > If it's not possible to override this at the moment, then is this a bug > > in Tomcat, or the Debian packaging? > > I'd say the bug is in the Debian packaging (but I would say that > wouldn't I). > > Without know how Tomcat is packaged in Debian, I would expect the following: > - the Manager web application to be a separate, optional package Yep, it is. > - the web.xml to be placed in an appropriate location for users to be > able to edit it. > > I took a quick look through the web.xml for the Manager app. There are > plenty of settings I wouldn't expect to change but there are a handful > of things that users might want to tweak. > > In theory, it should be possible to move those settings to context.xml > but that would require code changes and would mean do things that were > contrary to the spirit of the servlet spec so there would likely be > resistance to such changes from the Tomcat community. > > One option would be for Debian to use external entities for the > configurable elements and place the file that defines those entities > somewhere where users can edit it. Okay, that's an interesting idea if it's possible to agree on a sane set :) Thanks for your feedback! Cheers, Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org