[Fedora-packaging] Heads up: tomcat6 package into Fedora 9

[Fernando Nasser]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "FN" == Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> FN> I'd like to keep the tomcat5 package around as well, as some
> FN> people may want to use the old version still.  The packages have
> FN> versioned names so they can be installed in parallel.  Would that
> FN> be OK?
> 
> I don't see why that would be a problem, although I'm not really sure
> of the implications of how the parallel installations would interact
> with initscripts.  I guess since tomcat 5 uses "tomcat5" for its
> initscript there wouldn't be any conflict, but is there any point to
> running both versions at the same time?
> 

The applications may need changes to run in a different version.  Also 
there are some pre-packaged things that one does not know how to 
re-config but still wants to run.  Last but not least, some bits are 
BuildRequires and tomcat6 has a different level of the APIs.  I wanted 
to give people at least a release or two to adapt any dependnecies.


> Also, I can't help but point out that we still really need someone
> from (one of) the Java team(s) to help us write some Java guidelines.
> Without guidelines, review tickets for Java packages have been piling
> up, and it's taken me a lot of time just to get answers to basic
> questions that have cropped up during a package review.
> 

I ti snot the guidelines that are missing.  Several Java-related stuff 
have been discussed over the last couple of years.  Sometimes long and 
painful threads: ask Jess or Spot.

What we need is people to do the reviews.  We only get volunteers when 
someone is interested in a package (two cases recently).  But nobody 
seems to have the cycle and we cannot review the packages we own 
ourselves.  We need to try and get together some folks for a concentrate 
effort like we did once.

Regards,
Fernando