I'm pretty sure I've seen a tomcat6 package too. I'll take a look at your links once I get my hands on my laptop.
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Dridi
On Wednesday, October 23, 2013, Robert Rati <rrati@redhat.com> wrote:
> Here's a listing of the directory structure hadoop and similar bits produce in their builds:
>
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/48849/13825327
>
> There's a some stuff in there that's can obviously be paired down. Here's the script used to start/stop the service:
>
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/48852/38253290
>
> It should be noted that upstream hadoop, and its ecosystem, use tomcat 6.x and as part of packaging it we've moved forward to tomcat 7.x.
>
> Rob
>
> On 10/22/2013 12:27 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
>>
>> I've installed tomcat 7 on my machine to take a quick look at how it's packaged:
>> - exploded FHS-compliant layout
>> - systemd-friendly equivalent to catalina.sh
>> - default configuration in /etc
>>
>> Now if you want to run a tomcat instance (by instance I mean
>> $CATALINA_BASE) /usr/sbin/tomcat seems to be the best candidate.
>> Unlike catalina.sh, it expects a value for all the CATALINA_* variables
>> in its environment, while catalina.sh has fall-backs relative to
>> $CATALINA_HOME. Simply using /usr/sbin/tomcat as a substitute to
>> catalina.sh wouldn't work of course.
>>
>> Could you please post an example of what maven produces ? This would
>> help see what could be done with simple maven configuration (eg.
>> -Dsystem=properties) and what would require a patch (and help estimate
>> the amount of work).
>>
>> Dridi
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Robert Rati <rrati@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The lack of the tomcat shell scripts is causing issue with hadoop and some
>>> of their ecosystem packages. Some are webapps with custom configuration.
>>> The maven builds all create a tomcat install area with their custom
>>> configurations. It's not too hard to take that and adapt to fedora's tomcat
>>> if the schell scripts were packaged. Then these services could be
>>> stopped/started with systemd like other services.
>>>
>>> That's assuming catalina.sh and friends are present and functional. :)
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/21/2013 04:42 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The catalina.sh script work with the $CATALINA_HOME (tomcat binaries)
>>>> and $CATALINA_BASE (tomcat instances) directories. My guess is that
>>>> tomcat is packaged as a native (previously sysvinit, and now systemd)
>>>> service, and that instances wouldn't make sense. Other scripts like
>>>> startup.sh are just sugar wrappers to the catalina.sh script.
>>>>
>>>> When I say it wouldn't make sense, I mean that it was probably
>>>> packaged to feel like any other server:
>>>> sudo service tomcat start
>>>> or
>>>> sudo systemctl start tomcat
>>>>
>>>> The package probably owns directories in /var (or somewhere else) that
>>>> would make it multi-instance unfriendly.
>>>>
>>>> The catalina.sh script also expects sub-directories in $CATALINA_HOME
>>>> and $CATALINA_BASE. I suspect that tomcat explodes the directory
>>>> layout (in /usr, /var, maybe /etc) in order to be FHS compliant, which
>>>> would probably break catalina.sh and its friends.
>>>>
>>>> I'll install tomcat and take a look at the package ASAP.
>>>>
>>>> Dridi
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Robert Rati <rrati@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I logged a bz (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990588) to
>>>>> request that the tomcat shell scripts (catalina.sh and the rest) be
>>>>> packaged. I've had some discussions with the person the bz is assigned
>>>>> to
>>>>> and few others, but no one knows why the scripts were not packaged. Nor,
>>>>> it
>>>>> seems, does anyone see a problem with them being packaged as far as I can
>>>>> tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know some history here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
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