I discovered what caused the problem. when I had tried to repack source.war (executing this command: zip -r /opengrok/web/source.war)
I discovered that the syntax of zip on mac requires you to specify the source directory explicitly, so I did this, specifying that it was ~/opengrok/web/source, however this caused it to zip a level to high. went back and reran it as zip -r /opengrok/web/source.war * and it worked. thanks for the help though. This message posted from opensolaris.org