[Ubuntu] .war -> .deb packaging

[Cameron Shorter]

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.
>>
>
>

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