On Thursday 01 March 2007 04:01, George Stoianov wrote:

On 2/28/07, Zoltan Levardy wrote:

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dear All,

i am new to the list, and first of all would like to say hello all of you.

Trying to get tomcat 5 (or 5.5) installing with APT. The problem is i am unable to decide which APT extra repository to use for tomcat 5.x (+jta, jaf, javamail - these dependencies are broken with default suse installation, mightbe due to jdk1.5 is being used instead of 1.4).

my sources.list has the next lines: repomd http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386 update/10.2 repomd http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution 10.2/repo/oss/suse repomd ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories Java:/addon/openSUSE_10.2/

the last one about to have tomcat 5.5 with jdk 1.5, but those RMPS having unknown signature, for example: Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/tomcat55_5.5.17-4.4_noarch.rpm: sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#6b9d6523)

Anybody has hints or ideas how to get tomcat5 with jdk 1.5 on my box? (1) how to surpress the digital signature checking? (2) using alternative repository (3) do not use those rpms for any reason

Hi Zoltan,

Please note that I am not against using any repository or rpm or apt use, but if you are not putting this on a server and/or it is not a production server for which you do have to have exactly that package installed I would just grab what suits my needs from the apache site plus the vm I need and set-up my own tomcat installation.

The rpm/debian package gives you a lot of stuff you do not get this way, the rc scripts is one of them, but note that you can have as many jvms at as many versions as you want as long as you run them separately and their environments are not mixed up because of a misconfiguration etc..

I do a lot of java development on daily basis and I have at least 3 jvms against which i can compile my code. It just so happens that pretty much every distribution I use uses a jvm a bit older or newer than the one I need for a particular project so that is inevitable in my case. Another bonus of doing this is that if you thinker any JVM parameters at start-up like memory alocation, point to an alternative keystore etc. etc. you are not messing up your real install that all browsers would use, which would make your java functionality limited or cause you grief in a different area you did not want to change in the first place.

Another plus is that you can get the latest and greates (read most patched) jvm that covers the latest vulnerabilities before the distribution publishes an rpm as a fix, and sometimes that maybe a requirement. For home use I would stick with a distribution version, same for a work environment that does not allow such things... For any other I would set it up my self.

Good luck.

Hi. FYI: the tomcat55 in the http://software.opensuse.org/download/Java:/addon/openSUSE_10.2/ repository is the same tomcat55 for 10.2 that is currently in the factory tree. Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org