Bug 127441 – tomcat should install catalina-ant.jar to ant lib

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 09:10:25 UTC]

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Deploy%20A%20New%20Application%20Remotely

Executing Manager Commands With Ant

Copy the file server/lib/catalina-ant.jar from your Tomcat 5 installation into Ant's library directory ($ANT_HOME/lib).

[Comment 1 Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 09:43:36 UTC]

As noted in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Apache_Ant_and_Jakarta_Tomcat you can use a symbolic link

[Comment 2 Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 09:58:22 UTC]

/opt/tomcat5 needs permissions fixing as well

drwxr-x---   9 tomcat tomcat 264 Mar 23 12:57 tomcat5/

[Comment 3 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 10:24:23 UTC]

I believe that it is better, in general, for a project/package to manage it's own ant tasks (ie include in lib directory, and declare the taskdefs).

Additionally, tomcat is slotted. So, unless the catalina-ant.jars are named differently between the different slots and live under different package hierachies, there's going to be problems with this approach.

[Comment 4 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) 2006-06-07 07:42:45 UTC]

Tomcat 5.0.x is very old now, and upstream (Tomcat Devs) highly recommend against anyone installing or using this version. Please use Tomcat 5.5.x in java-experimental overlay. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/experimental.xml

Tomcat 5.0.x ebuilds will be masked soon and eventually removed all together. Tomcat 5.5.x should be added to portage within a month or so. Just after migration to new java system is complete.

Permissions and many other issues have been address in 5.5.x ebuild in java-experimental overlay.

[Comment 5 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-07-02 19:23:48 UTC]

I'm sticking by my initial position in comment #3.