SPECS: hudson.spec - deploy hudson in tomcat - is this a correct way to pac...

[wrobell]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:34:13PM +0100, Paweł Zuzelski wrote:
> On Monday 26 of January 2009 20:22:38 wrobell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:05:21AM +0100, pawelz wrote:
> > > Author: pawelz                       Date: Mon Jan 26 09:05:21 2009 GMT
> > > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > > ---- Log message:
> > > - deploy hudson in tomcat
> > > - is this a correct way to package .war apps? Please comment. It works
> > >   out-of-the-box. If you have apache-tomcat installed, you can just
> > >   rpm -ivh hudson and it works.
[...]
> > 2. hudson can be run standalone using embedded winstone http server,
> >    i would suggest putting tomcat related stuff into separate subpackage
> 
> It would be great to have subpackages: hudson-tomcat and hudson-standalone 
> (hudson-jboss, hudson-my-fovorite-application-server)? If there is anyone who 
> want to maintain and use other configurations than hudson-tomcat, feel free 
> to split hudson into subpackages. I need hudson only as an application inside 
> tomcat.

i do understand, but from the start you put dependencies, which are not
needed...  if one uses jboss, geronimo or whatever.

> And what do you think about deploing apps into tomcat using rpm? AFAIK no 
> other distro does it this way (am I right?).

imho, that's nice. the only problem i see if you start to put tomcat
dependency on every java lib/app we have :) so i would suggest subpackages :)

> BTW thanks for comments.

no problem, commenting is easy :)

regards,

    wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org>