[opencms-dev] OpenCMS and RPM packaging

[Joe Desbonnet]

Assuming that OpenCms works with the free Java stack distributed in
the Fedora Core Linux distribution, it would be a worthy project to
package up OpenCms as a RPM. As everything is in a standard location
in Fedora Core you don't have to worry about that locations of the
Tomcat container etc.

Redhat Enterprise Linux closely follows Fedora conventions, so it is
likely that the same RPM will work on this platform also.

I have no doubt that OpenCms could make it into the Fedora "Extras"
repository if there was an RPM version of the software. I think this
would provide a huge boost to the OpenCms user base.

Unfortunately I have never made an RPM (yet)... so I'm probably not
the person to take this on. Also I suspect that some minor refactoring
of the way OpenCms configures itself will be required for this to work
smoothly.

Joe.


On 4/29/06, Christian Steinert <christian_steinert at web.de> wrote:
> Mike McGrath schrieb:
> > Recently a vendor provided an OpenCMS solution to us with some
> > modules.  Is there any way to package these either as one large RPM?
> > Or, preferribly, one OpenCMS RPM and then RPM's for each module?  Has
> > anyone else done this?
> >
> > I'm familiar with building RPMs, thats not the problem.  I'd just
> > prefer not to have to use the web interface to import all the modules
> > every time we install this product, I'd prefer to use yum.
> >
> >   -Mike
> RPM as in "Redhat Package Manager"?
> But how in the world would you know the place, where the web container
> is installed on the target machine?
> I'm not terribly familiar with RPM, but to me this would make sense
> only, if an RPM can contain an additional script that is run upon
> install, where you can try to get things straight.
>
> Why not use a small shellscript which copies the module files and
> triggers the CMS shell to import them?
>
> Christian
>
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