Hi Matthias,
Yes, we are looking for help to try and package all OSGeo-Live projects
as .deb files, including geomajas.
By making all projects available as .deb files, we expect to
substantially reduce the barrier to entry for getting Open Source GIS
applications up and running for new users, as well as increasing the
stability of distributions of Open Source GIS.
On 10/06/2014 6:48 am, Matthias Streulens Geomajas wrote:
Yeah, there we are! sudo apt-get install geomajas ?
I'm thinking already a year of that feature...
But we are not providing war files (jetty-runner). If it is needed, we
can provide a war file.
Is assistance of packaging of our project for osgeolive needed?
Kind regards,
Matthias Streulens
System Admin Geomajas Community
Cameron Shorter schreef op 2014-06-09 22:28:
ubuntu-gis community,
We, the osgeolive community, wish to improve packaging of java
projects on osgeolive, by developing .deb packages, but we are short
on expertise on how to make this happen.
As below, Jerome has recommended that as a start we extend existing
.war packages to .deb packages, and have this role into ubuntugis. To
me, this sounds reasonable. Are there any objections or suggestions
related to this proposal?
Jerome, Ben, others,
Is there a howto or similar that we can reference, to guide projects
in the best practices for converting .war->.deb? I'd like to add a
section to our osgeolive processes, and link to it from ~
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#.deb_Packaging
On 9/06/2014 10:01 pm, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the tip! I'll take a look.
For GeoServer those were things I found when I looked into it last
year, but since I had no experience on how GeoServer buillt and
work, I didn't really get it to work. Your expertise will be pretty
valuable for this package this year!
And off course the .war -> .deb is simply a quick workaround to try
to have some packages ready for OsgeoLive and a way to at least have
some Java packages available.
Jerome
On 14-06-08 10:15 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Hi Jérôme,
have you looked at how Debian packages such as tomcat7-admin handle
packing servlets? Even if you are not yet in a position to adopt
their patterns, it would help to inform your approach.
One other problem is GeoServer contains some non-free drivers such
as the Oracle ojdbc14.jar that is bundled with the Oracle plugin.
Debian will require this to be in non-free. Or you could bundle one
without ojdbc14.jar and have a script download it (similar tricks
are used to install flash). ArcSDE also contains non-free drivers.
MS SQL drivers have to be obtained by the user (or at least they
were; need to check).
Also, some deployments require JDBC drivers at the tomcat level for
JNDI connection pooling between servletss, and having duplicate
drivers on the classpath can result in Bad Things Happening. The
right way to do with with Debian will be with cunning use of .deb
Conflicts.
I am happy for you to go ahead with the simple .war to .deb
conversion as you have described; once this is working a detailed
translation to .deb is a future work.
Kind regards,
Ben.
On 08/06/14 23:31, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
I've also participated in the OsgeoLive meeting this week and
talked a
bit about my plans for Java packages. We're thinking of going for a
quick packaging way first by packaging .war to .deb. It won't be
accepted on Debian, but for OsgeoLive and UbuntuGIS it would be a
quick
hack to have the packages available. If you have any suggestion or
idea
about that, I would be glad to hear them.
--
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
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