Tomcat6 Debian Package
The purpose of this project is to provide a debian package for Tomcat6 in cases the newest version is not available in debian or ubuntu repositories.
It is inspired by the glassfish3-debian-package project from vbossica
Warning
not finalized. do not use.
Build
mvn clean install
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Will download the apache-tomcat-6.0.xx.zip from the website regarding to the version in the pom.xml -> project.version
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generates debian package
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Finally, copy or publish the file
target/tomcat6.0.xx.deb.
Installation
To install the package, follow the usual Debian way of doing things (if you haven't set up a apt repository):
sudo dpkg -i tomcat6.0.xx.deb
Plugin configuration
- configuration is done via the properties section in the pom.xml and the project.version
switching to an newer tomcat6 version
- set the
<version>tag in the pom.xml to the new version, for example 6.0.100 - copy the md5-checksum from the download page into property
<tomcat6-md5> - rebuild project
switching download link
- choose a different mirror download link from the download site, for example: http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.36/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.36.zip
- modify
<tomcat6-base-download-url>to http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/${project.version}/bin/