On Monday 08 September 2014 08:52:41 Marc wrote:
> Hi Dimitar,
> Thank for answer
> When I install the jar version I have a 'basexserver' script in the 'bin'
> directory and a 'lib' directory. But when I said to the guys who does the
> installation on the server with the redhat package, the 'basexserver'
> script isn't the same and I don't have the 'lib' directory, I don't know if
> it's a problem of the package or of the installation procedure.
>
> I hope that explains you a little more.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
Hi Mark,
We must comply to certain rules, when we prepare packages for the different
Linux
distributions. One of these rules is that we have to install the BaseX files to
perdefined
directories. The redhat package will install the following files:
/usr
├── bin
│ ├── basex
│ ├── basexclient
│ ├── basexgui
│ ├── basexserver
│ └── basexserverstop
└── share
├── applications
│ └── basex.desktop
├── icons
│ └── hicolor
│ ├── 128x128
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ ├── 16x16
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ ├── 256x256
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ ├── 32x32
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ ├── 48x48
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ ├── 512x512
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ ├── 64x64
│ │ └── apps
│ │ └── basex.png
│ └── scalable
│ └── apps
│ └── basex.svg
├── java
│ └── basex.jar
└── man
└── man1
├── basex.1.gz
├── basexclient.1.gz
├── basexgui.1.gz
└── basexserver.1.gz
Additionally, we cannot include pre-compiled binaries in our packages - all
binaries in the
package must be generated from sources. This is why the lib directory is not
available. This is
also the reason why we don't ship basex-api (which includes the BaseX HTTP
server, and
bindings to different languages, and APIs) with any linux package - these
features require
libraries which are not always available in every linux distribution and some
are even closed
source (e.g. basex-xqj).
The basexserver script is not the same as the one we provide with the zip
archive, because it is
generated with the help of JPackage. This is a standard way to generate startup
scripts in
different linux distributions. The advantage of using JPackage is that optional
libraries will be
automatically used by basex if they are installed in the system (e.g. jline for
history in the
basex comman-line interfaces, or tagsoup).
I hope this answers your questions. I'll be happy to provide you with more
information.
Best regards,
Dimitar
