[SoC] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 3

[Jerome Villeneuve Larouche]

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.
>


-- 
Jérôme Villeneuve Larouche
www.mapgears.com