[Gllug] Fedora and JPackage

[Matthew Cooke]

Pros of RPM:
Normally the stuff is put in more standard distro places
Wrapper scripts such as service start X are installed.
Better support for swapping JVMs.
Reproduceable install
Easily Upgradeable
Dependancy resolution
Easy to to deploy the same configuration to multiple servers 
dev/staging/production.
The packager has often fixed issues for you.

Cons of RPM:
Instructions and support from tomcat/apache/sun etc, might no longer quite 
be correct.
Making major modifications to packages after installation loses many of the 
benefits of using rpms unless you rebuild the rpm yourself - config changes 
are ok but not src.
Lot's of people are more comfortable installing from src.

From: Richard Turner <richard at zygous.co.uk>
Reply-To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
Subject: [Gllug] Fedora and JPackage
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:07:53 +0100

Hi,

I'd like to know what people's views are on using the JPackage repo,
specifically with Fedora, as opposed to manually installing Java related
software. It appears that Fedora is set-up to support JPackage fairly
well, but is it really wise to use a package repo rather than installing
Java software to somewhere encapsulated like /opt/java?

What are the pros and cons of each method?

On a narrower spectrum, does anyone have any experience of configuring
and running a development installation of APLAWS+ using a JDK and Tomcat
from JPackage? My first attempt at that was a failure but I think it's
because I didn't really understand my Tomcat installation; a side-effect
of being able to use a JPackage RPM instead of doing a manual
installation.

All thoughts and opinions gratefully received! ;)

Cheers,

Richard.
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