[Live-demo] [Ubuntu] .war -> .deb packaging

[Matthias Streulens Geomajas]

Yeah, there we are! sudo apt-get install geomajas ?

I'm thinking already a year of that feature...

But we are not providing war files (jetty-runner). If it is needed, we 
can provide a war file.

Is assistance of packaging of our project for osgeolive needed?

Kind regards,
Matthias Streulens
System Admin Geomajas Community

Cameron Shorter schreef op 2014-06-09 22:28:
> ubuntu-gis community,
> We, the osgeolive community, wish to improve packaging of java
> projects on osgeolive, by developing .deb packages, but we are short
> on expertise on how to make this happen.
> As below, Jerome has recommended that as a start we extend existing
> .war packages to .deb packages, and have this role into ubuntugis. To
> me, this sounds reasonable. Are there any objections or suggestions
> related to this proposal?
> 
> Jerome, Ben, others,
> Is there a howto or similar that we can reference, to guide projects
> in the best practices for converting .war->.deb? I'd like to add a
> section to our osgeolive processes, and link to it from ~
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#.deb_Packaging
> 
> On 9/06/2014 10:01 pm, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thanks for the tip! I'll take a look.
>> 
>> For GeoServer those were things I found when I looked into it last 
>> year, but since I had no experience on how GeoServer buillt and work, 
>> I didn't really get it to work. Your expertise will be pretty valuable 
>> for this package this year!
>> 
>> And off course the .war -> .deb is simply a quick workaround to try to 
>> have some packages ready for OsgeoLive and a way to at least have some 
>> Java packages available.
>> 
>> Jerome
>> 
>> On 14-06-08 10:15 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>>> Hi Jérôme,
>>> 
>>> have you looked at how Debian packages such as tomcat7-admin handle 
>>> packing servlets? Even if you are not yet in a position to adopt 
>>> their patterns, it would help to inform your approach.
>>> 
>>> One other problem is GeoServer contains some non-free drivers such as 
>>> the Oracle ojdbc14.jar that is bundled with the Oracle plugin. Debian 
>>> will require this to be in non-free. Or you could bundle one without 
>>> ojdbc14.jar and have a script download it (similar tricks are used to 
>>> install flash). ArcSDE also contains non-free drivers. MS SQL drivers 
>>> have to be obtained by the user (or at least they were; need to 
>>> check).
>>> 
>>> Also, some deployments require JDBC drivers at the tomcat level for 
>>> JNDI connection pooling between servletss, and having duplicate 
>>> drivers on the classpath can result in Bad Things Happening. The 
>>> right way to do with with Debian will be with cunning use of .deb 
>>> Conflicts.
>>> 
>>> I am happy for you to go ahead with the simple .war to .deb 
>>> conversion as you have described; once this is working a detailed 
>>> translation to .deb is a future work.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Ben.
>>> 
>>> On 08/06/14 23:31, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
>>>> I've also participated in the OsgeoLive meeting this week and talked 
>>>> a
>>>> bit about my plans for Java packages. We're thinking of going for a
>>>> quick packaging way first by packaging .war to .deb. It won't be
>>>> accepted on Debian, but for OsgeoLive and UbuntuGIS it would be a 
>>>> quick
>>>> hack to have the packages available. If you have any suggestion or 
>>>> idea
>>>> about that, I would be glad to hear them.
>>> 
>> 
>>