Hi to all, I want to propose a new packaging policy for Tomcat, 3.2/3.3/4.0 RPMs.
Up to now, the Tomcat RPM which are built from the source present in jakarta site and include the binary jars present in the source tarball. To respect the general RPM packaging method (Mandrake, Redhat, Suse and others), and more generally packaging policies from Debian group, I wish to remove the use of included jar and use the jar for the other required RPM. In tomcat 3.2.x case. * servletapi3-3.2.4 will provide servlet-2.2.jar in /usr/share/java * tomcat3-3.2.4 will provide webserver.jar and jasper.jar * xml parser will be grabbed from the one found on our system and following the jpackage project, I'll make use of jaxp_parser.jar which live in /usr/share/java and which is a symlink on a real XML parser like, xerces-j (xerces.jar), crimson (crimson.jar), xml4j (xml4j.jar), all of this living in /usr/share/java. servlet.jar and xml_parser.jar won't be copied from /usr/share/java but will use symlink . ln -s /usr/share/java/servlet-2.2.jar /var/tomcat/lib/servlet.jar ln -s /usr/share/java/xml_parser.jar /var/tomcat/lib/xml_parser.jar In Tomcat 3.3 case, it will be similar expect I'll add also xalan.jar which is present in xalan-j RPM (2.1.0 today). In Tomcat 4.0 case, we'll make use also of jmx, jndi and tyrex, which all live in the respective RPM. Tomcat 4.0 will also make use of servletapi4, which provide /usr/share/java/servlet-2.3.jar JSSE is a special case, since it's not mandatory but may be installed in tomcat lib dirs if detected at install time (thanks to comment this automatic installation) As such, all the needed RPM will be provided as source and binary (noarch) in distrib directory so users will have everything necessary to use the RPM. This refactory is part of a job conducted on jpackage, http://jpackage.sourceforge.net/, which is a project to provide a full RPM distribution of usual java applications and libraries. All the major jakarta.apache.org and xml.apache.org projects are available at jpackage, making the dependencies easier to handle. Nota that jpackage make extensive use of xml, xml -> spec translator, ant (building) and rpm (for packaging). Thanks to give your opinion. Regards - Henri Gomez ___[_]____ EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (. .) PGP KEY : 697ECEDD ...oOOo..(_)..oOOo... PGP Fingerprint : 9DF8 1EA8 ED53 2F39 DC9B 904A 364F 80E6 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
