Re: tomcat for Debian [RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects]

2000-12-05 Thread Thom May
*Wipes brow* ok, I'll gracefully run away from this one then ;-) -Thom Amy: deb packages for JDK1.3 (blackdown jdk) at deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian/ woody non-free HTH On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:28:32 +0900, Takashi Okamoto said: > > I didn't know much a

Re: tomcat for Debian [RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects]

2000-12-04 Thread Takashi Okamoto
> I didn't know much about debian packaging but there is a tool, alien, which > convert from RPM to dpkg. Alien isn't complete. Because policies are different between Redhat and Debian. Stefan is prepareing tomcat package for Debian. Check here. http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/ -

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Gomez Henri
> I'd love to see up-to-date Debian packaging, but I think it would be a > challenge to keep it quite as up-to-date as CVS. Perhaps a regular > "stable" release for Debian unstable and a nightly build for those of > us > who like pain? I didn't know much about debian packaging but there is a tool

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Costin, could you please move your upload directory for these nightly builds to > > someplace else? The problem is that you're confusing the people who wonder why > > the nightly builds have nothing to do with the current (3.2) code release. > > I can move them t

RE: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Gomez Henri
> What about spliting the package - /opt/tomcat for the JARs, > /var/log/tomcat for tomcat logs, /home/httpd/webapps for webapps ? Up to redhat 6.2, /home/httpd was the serverroot. Config goes to /etc/httpd/conf and misc logs in /var/log/httpd. > It would be nice to have a standard - what are t

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread cmanolache
> > Costin, could you please move your upload directory for these nightly builds to > someplace else? The problem is that you're confusing the people who wonder why > the nightly builds have nothing to do with the current (3.2) code release. I can move them to tomcat-3.3 - I wanted to avoid con

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I would be interested in hearing from folks here whether they percieve > > > a need for Debian packaging, or whether they prefer to "roll their > > > own"? > > > > I'd love to see up-to-date Debian packaging, but I think it would be a > > challenge to keep it quite

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread cmanolache
> > I would be interested in hearing from folks here whether they percieve > > a need for Debian packaging, or whether they prefer to "roll their > > own"? > > I'd love to see up-to-date Debian packaging, but I think it would be a > challenge to keep it quite as up-to-date as CVS. Perhaps a regul

RE: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread cmanolache
> > /opt is reserved ReadOnly on many systems. Debian boys told me that > packages should go to /var/x and java stuff /usr/share/java . > > Java software on Linux is not really standard now. What about spliting the package - /opt/tomcat for the JARs, /var/log/tomcat for tomcat logs, /home/

RE: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Amy Lewis
I would like to see a debian package of Tomcat. However, I'd also like to see a debian 1.2+ JDK *laugh* Amy! > -Original Message- > From: Thom May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re:

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Thom May
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:24:01 +, Andrew Savory said: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thom May wrote: > > > I would be interested in hearing from folks here whether they percieve > > a need for Debian packaging, or whether they prefer to "roll their > > own"? > > I'd love to see up-to-date Debian pa

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Savory
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thom May wrote: > I would be interested in hearing from folks here whether they percieve > a need for Debian packaging, or whether they prefer to "roll their > own"? I'd love to see up-to-date Debian packaging, but I think it would be a challenge to keep it quite as up-to-dat

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread Thom May
Hi Henri, on a similar note, I am currently beginning the long road into the Debian project. I have already stated that I wish to take over the packaging for Cocoon, and am currently debating whether to try to do Tomcat as well. I would be interested in hearing from folks here whether they perciev

RE: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread GOMEZ Henri
>As a Linux user I would be more than happy to see this happen. RPM is a >great tool that makes installing and maintaining a linux box >very easy. That's the goal ... >My +1 on that, my only wish/concern is related with the >locations of the >files ( I have a very strong preference to /opt -

Re: RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread cmanolache
As a Linux user I would be more than happy to see this happen. RPM is a great tool that makes installing and maintaining a linux box very easy. My +1 on that, my only wish/concern is related with the locations of the files ( I have a very strong preference to /opt - it allows multiple versions

RPM for jakarta/xml apaches projects

2000-12-04 Thread GOMEZ Henri
Hi, I just want to launch a poll to all tomcat commiters and latter extends to jakarta.apache.org and xml.apache.org projects commiters. As you may know I allready release RPM for the majority of the new Apache Projects. May be it will be time to 'Institutionalize the RPM Creation Process' as