I'm sure that others will have differing opionions. What I say here is just mine.
I've never seen a Linux distribution with Ant, Tomcat, etc. packaged in a convenient and scalable way. I install manually (i.e. without the package management software that I use for everything other than third party Java products), knowing that I will have to spend about 15 minutes/year updating manually. For any hosts where Ant has been installed with an rpm, I alias "ant" to "ant --noconfig". Otherwise, the heavy-handed scripts under /etc will override carefully set environmental variables and such (often ignoring the Ant distribution in your search path, causing XML library conflicts, etc.). David Weintraub wrote: > My desktop machine is now a Fedora 10 machine, and I've been having a > bit of an issue with installing ant-contrib.jar. > > Normally, you simply install the ant-contrib.jar inside the > $ANT_HOME/lib, and everything is fine. However, that doesn't work on > my machine unless I explicitly turn off rpm_mode. And, in order for > that to work, I had to install the Ant version directly from > ant.apache.org instead of relying on Fedora's packaging mechanism. > > How do I install the ant-contrib package on a Fedora machine? How does > Ant find the various jar files it needs when it is in rpm_mode? > > Right now, I had to: > > 1). Move /usr/share/ant to /usr/share/ant.orig > 2). Install a new version of ant in /usr/share/ant > 3). Move /usr/bin/ant to /usr/bin/ant.orig > 4). Make a symbolic link from /usr/share/ant/bin/ant to /usr/share/ant > 5). Modify /etc/ant.conf to set rpm_mode to false. > > Doing this makes it impossible for my package manager to update Ant > when a newer version comes out. What should I have done in order to > get Ant to work with Ant-Contrib? > > -- > David Weintraub > qazw...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
