It looks like FHS compliant. I like symlinks too. +1 (although I always use the tarball :-)
Bojan GOMEZ Henri wrote: > > 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
