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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:06:37 -0200
From: Vitor Buitoni <vitor.buitoni@digitro.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Installing Tomcat 5 from JPackage
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Then i really can't see what's the point of installing the rpm.

You can run tomcatd as a service without installing the rpm. You just 
have to put a script to initialize tomcat inside the /etc/init.d folder.
We do this here and it works fine.

It seems that the benefits are only a few, and not really very important.

Vitor

Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote:

>The only advantage is that tomcat is installed as a "service" i.e.
>you do a /sbin/service tomcat start or whatever the rpm has in mind..
>Plus permissions and directory location.
>But apart from that, I would personally never choose the rpm installation 
>over the tarball. The perceived benefits aren't that important for me to
>mess around installing whatever else is required by the package definition..
>
>Yiannis
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vitor Buitoni [mailto:vitor.buitoni@digitro.com.br]
>Sent: 04 February 2004 11:19
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: Installing Tomcat 5 from JPackage
>
>
>To be able to install tomcat rpm package, you must install a lot of 
>other packages that tomcat depends on, first.
>I already did this once, and for me it was very time consuming and it 
>wasn't easy at all. This is because JPackager can't provide some 
>packages as binary packages, because of copyright restrictions. So you 
>have to download the "nosrc" rpm from jpackage, download the source code 
>from the software site (e.g. java.sun.com) and build the rpm from the 
>scratch. Then you can install this rpm.
>The whole process might be very painful, at least for me it was, since i 
>had to learn something about the rpm creation process. :-)
>
>So, the REAL question is :
>- Does anybody know the advantage of installing a tomcat rpm package??
>
>
>Joe Tseng wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I recently installed Fedore Core 1 and was advised to install Tomcat 5
>>    
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>>from JPackage using yum.  When I tried to install to do this I got an
>  
>
>>error like this:
>>
>>Resolving dependencies
>>...identicla dependency loop exceeded
>>package tomcat5 needs jaas (not provided)
>>package tomcat5 needs jaf >= 0:1.0.1 (not provided)
>>package tomcat5 needs javamail >= 0:1.3 (not provided)
>>package
>>[snip]
>>
>>Any useful assistance in helping out a noob with installation is
>>    
>>
>appreciated.
>  
>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
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