Bug#345013: kaffe: buggy java.util.zip implementation

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

Package: kaffe
Version: 2:1.1.5-3
Tags: sarge

Trying the war from inside
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/alfresco/alfresco-war-1.1.1.zip (or any
other sf mirror of that file) in a sarge tomcat4+kaffe deployment, fails
with an IOException for one of the jar files inside. Yet the failing jar
seems fine from an inspection with unzip and from running the jar manually
with gcj (which does fail too, but as expected because there is no main
class inside).

Googling around for the exception message learns that the kaffe zip classes
are known to be buggy, and supposedly using those from classpath-common
might help. However I have no idea how to do so.

>From catalina.log:

java.io.IOException: No such zip file /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/yguard.jar
   at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init> (ZipFile.java:50)
   at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init> (ZipFile.java:56)
   at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init> (JarFile.java:219)
   at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init> (JarFile.java:201)
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader.setRepositories (WebappLoader.java:1019)
   ...

Regards,

Filip

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