The only advantage is that tomcat is installed as a "service" i.e. you do a /sbin/service tomcat start or whatever the rpm has in mind.. Plus permissions and directory location. But apart from that, I would personally never choose the rpm installation over the tarball. The perceived benefits aren't that important for me to mess around installing whatever else is required by the package definition..
Yiannis -----Original Message----- From: Vitor Buitoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 February 2004 11:19 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Installing Tomcat 5 from JPackage To be able to install tomcat rpm package, you must install a lot of other packages that tomcat depends on, first. I already did this once, and for me it was very time consuming and it wasn't easy at all. This is because JPackager can't provide some packages as binary packages, because of copyright restrictions. So you have to download the "nosrc" rpm from jpackage, download the source code from the software site (e.g. java.sun.com) and build the rpm from the scratch. Then you can install this rpm. The whole process might be very painful, at least for me it was, since i had to learn something about the rpm creation process. :-) So, the REAL question is : - Does anybody know the advantage of installing a tomcat rpm package?? Joe Tseng wrote: >I recently installed Fedore Core 1 and was advised to install Tomcat 5 >from JPackage using yum. When I tried to install to do this I got an >error like this: > >Resolving dependencies >...identicla dependency loop exceeded >package tomcat5 needs jaas (not provided) >package tomcat5 needs jaf >= 0:1.0.1 (not provided) >package tomcat5 needs javamail >= 0:1.3 (not provided) >package >[snip] > >Any useful assistance in helping out a noob with installation is appreciated. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. Note:__________________________________________________________________ This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Jaguar Freight Services and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs.
