[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#769348: Bug#769348: biomaj-watcher: Should /var/lib/tomcat8/shared exist?

[olivier.sallou at codeless.fr]

On 12/14/2014 03:19 PM, Emilien Klein wrote:
> TLDR: Please check if the "/var/lib/tomcat8/shared" folder is still used
> with Tomcat 8.
>
>
> I have applied the previously attached patch, the package builds fine,
> but when installing the .deb the following error occurs:
>
> Setting up biomaj-watcher (1.2.2-2) ...
> Updating Context.xml...
> Configuration complete
> cp: cannot create regular file ‘/var/lib/tomcat8/shared/biomaj.jar’: No
> such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package biomaj-watcher (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  biomaj-watcher
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> The cause of the issue is that there is no "shared" folder in
> /var/lib/tomcat8/
Sounds indeed that tomcat shared library folder is not used anymore in
Tomcat8.
Seems that those libraries should be moved to $CATALINA_HOME/lib now....
Seems that each version changes this dir......

I think however we could avoid putting lib in such dir with an
appropriate context XML file. I gonna try such solution this week and
upload fix.
>
> When creating that folder manually, the package
> installation/configuration completes succesfully. I wanted to test if
> that folder needed to exist, or if Tomcat 8 even looks at that location.
> Unfortunately, when accessing http://localhost:8080/BmajWatcher per
> d/README.Debian, I get a Tomcat 404 error message with a description
> that "The requested resource is not available." Since I have no
> experience with Tomcat, I haven't tried to go deeper in the configuration.
>
> Maybe you have a quick hint on how to configure Tomcat so that I could
> try to go further.
> But even if that page worked I'm not sure I could validate that the
> "shared" folder is used appropriately. Please validate that.
>
>     +Emilien
>
>
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