Bugzilla Bug 155622

Requesting stabilization of Tomcat. I have been running this version on both my
development and production servers for over a month. I have been running past
versions of this ebuild for over a year. It's very refined, and way better than
the current stable Tomcat. Although 6.0 will be out soon. 5.0.x is no longer
actively developed or bugs fixed. I might remove the rest of those from tree at
the earliest possible chance. Also Tomcat 5.0.27 should not be marked stable.
It has bug fixes address in 5.0.28. 5.5 and 5.0 are slotted. I might file a
stabilization bug for 5.0.28 as well. But I would like to see everything <
5.5.20 be gone.

Tomcat also has a decent amount of deps. Some stable, some not. I was going to
hold off on requesting stabilization till I filed bugs on all the deps. However
I have not had time for that thus far. Not sure when I will. Likely the only
way it will get stable is with a team effort. So not trying to dump my work on
others, but really need help with stabilizing all the deps. Most of which are
packages I don't really touch or know much about. Beyond the ebuild, java
aspects.

Thanks, sorry for the length.

I believe these are the dependencies that need to be stabilized for Tomcat on
x86

dev-java/mx4j-3*
dev-java/hessian-3.0.8*
dev-java/caucho-services-3.0.8*
dev-java/burlap-3.0*
dev-java/gnu-javamail-1*
dev-java/gnu-classpath-inetlib-1.0*
dev-java/jessie
dev-java/commons-digester-1.7

amd64 requires a few more

dev-java/jaxen-1.0
dev-java/sun-jaf
dev-java/sun-javamail

Hope that helps some

I think this ebuild still needs some more work... or Tomcat needs some new use
flags or something. 

This is what portage wants to install to go from Tomcat-5.0.27 to
Tomcat-5.5.20:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[blocks B     ] <dev-java/ant-tasks-1.6.5 (is blocking
dev-java/ant-core-1.6.5-r14)
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/javatoolkit-0.1.9-r1  20 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-java/commons-pool-1.2-r2 [1.1] USE="doc -junit (-jikes%)"
263 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.02-r1  USE="doc -source"
1,031 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/servletapi-2.4-r4  USE="doc -source" 4,181 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/saxpath-1.0-r2  USE="doc -source -test" 2,115 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jdom-1.0_beta9-r2  USE="doc -source" 3,337 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jaxen-1.0-r1  USE="doc -junit -source" 3,120 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.1-r13  USE="doc" 530 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-io-1.2  USE="doc -source" 200 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/portletapi-1.0  USE="doc -source" 30,583 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/servletapi-2.3-r3  USE="doc -source" 124 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-fileupload-1.1.1  USE="doc -source" 95 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/avalon-logkit-1.2-r2  USE="doc -javamail -jms -source"
233 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-codec-1.3-r1  USE="doc -source" 86 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-httpclient-3.0.1  USE="doc -examples -source
-test" 1,658 kB 
[ebuild  N F  ] dev-java/sun-jaf-bin-1.1  USE="doc" 371 kB 
[ebuild  N F  ] dev-java/sun-javamail-bin-1.4  USE="doc" 2,390 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-discovery-0.2-r3  USE="doc -junit -source" 71
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r3  USE="doc -jython -rhino -source" 1,021
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-httpclient-2.0.2-r1  USE="doc -source" 1,414
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/wsdl4j-1.5.1-r1  USE="doc -source" 347 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/ant-owanttask-1.1-r11  9 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/asm-1.4.3-r3  USE="doc -source" 132 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/junitperf-1.9.1-r1  USE="doc -source -test" 108 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jrexx-1.1.1-r1  USE="doc -source" 61 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/trove-1.0.2-r1  USE="doc -source" 777 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/qdox-20050104-r1  USE="doc -source" 34 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/asm-1.5.2-r2  USE="doc -source" 145 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/javassist-2.6-r1  USE="doc -source" 1,116 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/concurrent-util-1.3.4-r1  USE="doc -source" 133 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/aspectwerkz-2.0_rc2-r2  USE="-java5 -source" 9,530 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/cglib-2.0.2-r2  USE="doc -source" 435 kB 
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-java/xerces-1.3.1-r2  USE="doc -source" 879 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jakarta-regexp-1.3-r3  USE="doc -source" 124 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/nspr-4.6.3-r1  USE="ipv6 -debug" 1,271 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/zip-2.32  USE="crypt" 788 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/nss-3.11.3-r1  3,598 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jss-3.4-r1  470 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/ldapsdk-4.1.7-r1  USE="doc" 1,043 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jdbc2-postgresql-7.3  160 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xml-commons-1.0_beta2-r1  USE="doc -source" 1,778 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/gnu-jaxp-1.3-r1  USE="doc -source" 1,314 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/adaptx-0.9.13_p20041105-r2  USE="doc -source" 325 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/castor-0.9.9.1-r1  USE="doc postgres -source" 6,635 kB 
[ebuild  N F  ] dev-java/sun-jimi-1.0-r2  USE="doc" 3,790 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] www-servers/axis-1.2_rc2  USE="doc -debug" 9,656 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/gnu-crypto-2.0.1-r2  USE="doc -source" 3,804 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/jessie-1.0.0-r2  USE="doc" 855 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/gnu-classpath-inetlib-1.0-r2  USE="doc" 147 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/gnu-jaf-1.0-r2  USE="doc -source" 142 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/gnu-javamail-1.0-r1  USE="doc" 690 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/caucho-services-3.0.8-r1  USE="doc -source" 6 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/hessian-3.0.8-r3  USE="doc -source" 179 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/burlap-3.0.8-r1  USE="doc -source" 19 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/mx4j-3.0.1-r1  USE="doc -examples -source" 607 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-launcher-0.9-r1  USE="doc -source" 40 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-digester-1.7-r2  USE="doc -examples -source
-test" 232 kB 
[ebuild  N F  ] dev-java/sun-jmx-1.2.1-r2  USE="doc -examples -source" 2,126 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-modeler-1.1-r1  USE="doc -source" 90 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xjavac-20041208-r4  1 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/xml-commons-resolver-1.1-r1  USE="doc -source" 225 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-java/ant-core-1.6.5-r14 [1.6.2] USE="doc -source%" 6,136 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-java/xerces-2.8.1 [2.6.2-r1] USE="doc -examples% -source%"
1,651 kB 
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-java/commons-beanutils-1.7.0-r2  USE="doc -source" 252 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-daemon-1.0.1-r1  USE="doc -examples -source"
293 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-java/commons-dbcp-1.2.1-r1 [1.1] USE="doc -source%
(-jikes%)" 565 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/commons-el-1.0-r1  USE="-source" 62 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/sun-jaf-1.1  USE="doc -source" 32 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/sun-javamail-1.4  USE="doc -source" 281 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-java/log4j-1.2.14 [1.2.8-r1] USE="doc -javamail% -jms%
-jmx% -source%" 2,706 kB 
[ebuild  NS   ] www-servers/tomcat-5.5.20-r2  USE="doc -admin -examples -java5
-source -test" 4,683 kB 


I write Java webapps for a living and I haven't even heard of half these
dependencies. They are most certainly NOT needed to run your basic webapp in
Tomcat. If I need one of these technologies, I'm happy to install it
separately.

I will NOT use this ebuild until the dependency issues are fixed. Gentoo has
only recently started to get it's shit together as far as Java goes. It is very
unfortunate that the current state of the ebuild for the most popular servlet
container is so unappealing that this will likely continue to drive Java devs
away from Gentoo.

(In reply to comment #2)
And this relates in what way to the stabilization of this package?

Please keep this bug on topic, if you absolutely have to state that you think
the ebuild is below standards please open a new bug. If you attach a (sane) new
ebuild you might even achieve something. Randomly ranting on a bug will most
likely not get you anywhere.

First off that is a pretty hostile comment, and please watch the language. Not
sure where to even begin. Seems you are not aware of allot of the changes that
have taken place with Java on Gentoo over the last year.

Tomcat 5.0.27 is a binary ebuild. Not only is Tomcat a binary installed, but it
installs bundled dependencies which is something we do not do. Now please
understand building Tomcat from source is totally different than installing a
binary Tomcat. Therefore all of the dependencies you are seeing are required to
BUILD Tomcat. Any optional ones have been use flagged. If you go to emerge one
of the ~arch version of 5.0.28 you will see the same.

Enabling the java5 useflag reduces a considerable amount of dependencies in
5.5.20. Since most of the dependencies come from mx4j. There has been effort to
make mx4j more flexible via use flags and etc. That still being worked on,
tested and etc before moving from overlay into tree. There were still
complaints about struts since it's only a runtime dependency for the admin
webapp. Thus the admin USE flag.

I would suggesting reading the various Gentoo Java documents on all the stuff
going on. If you don't like Tomcat's dependencies you surely won't like things
like Netbeans which use Tomcat as a dependency. Which we are also building from
source. And there are lots of reasons to build Java stuff from source. All
covered in Gentoo Java docs. Not to be discussed or debated in a stabilization
bug. Take it up on the mailing list, forum or irc.

To the actual arch devs working this bug. Please disregard the hostile comments
buy a user. There are many currently running this ebuild and even more that
will be very pleased to see it stabilized. The only current stable version
5.0.27 is very old, fraught with bugs, and will be removed from tree entirely
as soon as there is another stable Tomcat. Upstream is only recommending and
supporting 5.5.20, it's the only current release version of Tomcat 5.x.

I used these versions to compile tomcat on x86. (they should all be in portage
for over a month)
=www-servers/tomcat-5.5.20-r2
=dev-java/mx4j-3.0.1-r1
=dev-java/hessian-3.0.8-r3
=dev-java/caucho-services-3.0.8-r1
=dev-java/burlap-3.0.8-r1
=dev-java/gnu-javamail-1.0-r1
=dev-java/gnu-classpath-inetlib-1.0-r2
=dev-java/jessie-1.0.0-r2
=dev-java/commons-digester-1.7-r2
=dev-java/struts-1.2.9-r1
=dev-java/commons-validator-1.1.4-r1


The following packages emerge on x86, pass collision test and test suite (if
they have one)
dev-java/mx4j-3.0.1-r1  USE="-doc -examples -source"
 Please note:
  dodoc: LICENSE does not exist
  dodoc: README does not exist
dev-java/hessian-3.0.8-r3  USE="-doc -source"
dev-java/caucho-services-3.0.8-r1  USE="-doc -source"
dev-java/burlap-3.0.8-r1  USE="-doc -source"
dev-java/gnu-javamail-1.0-r1  USE="-doc"
dev-java/gnu-classpath-inetlib-1.0-r2  USE="-doc"
dev-java/jessie-1.0.0-r2  USE="-doc"
dev-java/commons-digester-1.7-r2  USE="test -doc -examples -source" 
dev-java/struts-1.2.9-r1  USE="doc examples source"
dev-java/commons-validator-1.1.4-r1  USE="doc examples source"
www-servers/tomcat-5.5.20-r2  USE="test -admin -doc -examples -java5 -source"
I also emerged tomcat with and without java5. both worked (I got
localhost:8080) but didn't do any further tests.

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18.1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18.1 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--nospinner"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/"
LINGUAS="en de en_GB de_CH"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 asf berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cdrom
cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds
elibc_glibc emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog
java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux ldap libg++ linguas_de linguas_de_CH
linguas_en linguas_en_GB mad mikmod mmx mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline
reflection rtsp ruby samba sdl session smp spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg tcpd
test tetex theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
userland_GNU vcd video_cards_fbdev video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa vorbis
win32codecs wxwindows x264 xine xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

I see that I didn't properly do my research. Apologies for that. Please try to
reduce dependencies wherever possible.

Believe it or not, tomcat purrs on x86.

These packages emerge fine on amd64 and seem to be working ok:
www-servers/tomcat-5.5.20-r2
dev-java/mx4j-3.0.1-r1
dev-java/hessian-3.0.8-r3
dev-java/caucho-services-3.0.8-r1
dev-java/burlap-3.0.0-r1
dev-java/gnu-javamail-1.0-r1
dev-java/gnu-classpath-inetlib-1.0-r2
dev-java/jessie-1.0.0-r2
dev-java/commons-digester-1.7
dev-java/jaxen-1.0

These are already tested in other bugs (added to dependencies):
dev-java/sun-jaf
dev-java/sun-javamail


Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18-suspend2-Dudebox-Edition x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-suspend2-Dudebox-Edition x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64
Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:00:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -Os -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks
metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage_overlay"
SYNC="rsync://server/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups
dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox
fortran gcj gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imap
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal
kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls
nptl nptlonly objc objc++ ogg oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3
quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd test
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU
video_cards_radeon vorbis xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I don't understand something :
Why tomcat 5.5 install needs jdk 1.4 even with java5 USE flag ? Not directly,
but its dependencies need it as dev-java/commons-collections.

Any progress or hiccups with stabilization on amd64? Looking to remove and mask
older versions ASAP. Thanks

amd64 done. last arch, marking fixed.