Bug#418962: tomcat5.5: Should not use relative symlinks

[Arnaud Vandyck]

On 4/14/07, Mike Young <debian at elyoung.com> wrote:
[...]
> The issue with symlinks still stands though, albeit a very minor issue now.
>
> Also, I am curious as to whether the changes made to /var/lib/tomcat
> should in fact be made to CATALINA_BASE or whether we should recommend
> that certain parts of CATALINA_BASE be pointed at their /var/lib/tomcat
> equivalents? after fixing the symlink error above, I am concerned that
> security patches and or updates might not make it to my system because
> of my choice to host the server under the /srv/ mount.

In my POV, if you change the location of tomcat, you break the
installation! I have multiple tomcat installed on my system and the
Debian one just works fine.

Marcus, if you have the time to investigate, thanks, otherwise, I
think we should close the bug or tag it "wontfix".

Cheers,

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Arnaud Vandyck