Re: [gentoo-java] Apache Directory Server

[Miroslav S(ulc]

So I put your ebuild in overlay and updated the bug. I have few
suggestions to your ebuild:

1) it could use packages from Gentoo instead of the bundled ones
(commons-cli, commons-logging, concurrent-util, xerces, log4j, mx4j etc.)

2) directories in /opt/geronimo/var should be symlinked to appropriate
places
    suggested locations:
    config -> /etc/geronimo/config
    security -> /etc/geronimo/security
    log -> /var/log/geronimo
    temp -> /var/tmp/geronimo
    these symlinks have two reasons - first reason is the files are
found where they are expected to be (config files in /etc, log files in
/var/log), second reason is that config files will be auto-protected so
they will not be overwritten on geronimo upgrade

We are still busy with packaging jboss so we do not have time to work
on/improve geronimo ebuild but if you decide to work on it further then
we can give you some guidance either here or in #gentoo-java as Alistair
wrote before. You can find me there under nick fordfrog and Alistair is
ali_bush.

Thank you for providing geronimo ebuild and I hope we will hear some
news from you about geronimo ebuild or we will meet at irc.

---
Miroslav
   

Yannick Menager wrote:
> I just tried to do so, but i can't seem to be able to logon to
> bugzilla, even resetted the password, but it won't allow logon
> *sigh*...  Could someone please take the files directly from my
> overlay at https://svn.jguild.com/gentoo-overlay/www-servers/geronimo/
> and put them on bugzilla
>
> Miroslav S wrote:
>> You can attach it here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115506
>>
>> --
>> Miroslav
>>
>> Yannick Menager wrote:
>>
>>> Actually i have an ebuild for geronimo, but it's a binary-based one.
>>> Should i contribute so that there's something until someone write a
>>> source one ?
>>>
>>> Alistair Bush wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jose That does sound interesting.
>>>>
>>>> At present all J2EE activity is towards trying to package JBoss on
>>>> Gentoo (sanely).  Geronimo is on the list of J2EE implementations
>>>> that we (fordforg and myself)  are planing on looking at.
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to attempt to package Geronimo we would be happy go
>>>> give you advice, either thru the mailing list or on
>>>> irc://freenode/#gentoo-java
>>>>
>>>> (The above is a blantant attempt to get more worker ants for the J2EE
>>>> effort).
>>>>
>>>> I personally was considering attempting to package the glassfish
>>>> project after jboss but I may now consider Geronimo (or do them
>>>> jointly)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alistair
>>>>