Re: Installing Tomcat 5 from JPackage

[David Smith]

It was my impression that the Tomcat available from JPackage was built with 
JDK 1.3.  If it was built with 1.4, it wouldn't need all those 
dependencies.  I avoid it for that reason.  Once up on a time, rpms were 
available from the jakarta site.  I used them with at most one or two other 
packages to install and loved it.  Upgrading was extremely easy.  The stuff 
available from JPackage requires too many dependant packages for my taste.

--David

At 07:15 AM 2/5/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Vitor Buitoni wrote:

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. :-)
Yup! It is a pain
So, the REAL question is :
- Does anybody know the advantage of installing a tomcat rpm package??
You get (or should get) a neatly setup Tomcat, with all startup scripts in 
place, non-root user, etc. I know, you can do it yourself, on foot, but it 
is time consuming and error prone. Not to mention that you might forget or 
decline to do some part of setup.

I have 14 DEC Alpha systems running Tru64 UNIX and, although I can just do 
a default install to "/usr/local", I compile and package everything into 
it's own SETLD packages. It make maintainince, upgrade, installation and 
finding my way around MUCH easier.

So, when I make a package, I concentrate on that task alone and build in 
all functionality that I can into it. Imagine a user breathing down your 
neck, needing some functionality (new version of Sendmail or some such) 
and you sitting at the terminal, trying to build, install and configure 
everything. With packages, it is far less frustrating.

Nix.

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