Re: packaging geoserver

Slightly unrelated but when I packaged it I isolated geoserver & its binary (its much easier to manage in its own jetty instance in terms of memory limits & sun java home etc)

Email I sent to geoserver-users

Hi All,
I packaged geoserver 2.1-RC5 with java advanced imaging for ubuntu/debian, only tested on Ubuntu 10.04 but should work on any debian based release that has sun-java6-jdk and upstart. The source is available on my bitbucket account (https://bitbucket.org/adonm/geoserver), run 'make' in the cloned repository to build the deb. Plain deb (~64MB) will also be available for download on same bitbucket site once my sluggish connection gets it uploaded.
Note that its just the binary distribution setup to run nice =), all the environment variables are configurable in '/etc/default/geoserver' (e.g. port, jvm memory settings/other options, geoserver home, geoserver data dir)
Geoserver home defaults to /opt/geoserver
Data dir defaults to /var/local/geoserver and is preserved across upgrades along with conf in /etc/default/geoserver
Log file in data_dir/logs/geoserver.log is symlinked to /var/log/geoserver.log
I'll try and keep it at least within a month of the latest release as we use it quite heavily at work (Western Australia govt)
Kind Regards,
Adon

On 12 May 2011 08:12, Rudi Hochmeister <rudi.hochmeister@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

a)Since geoserver is dependent on geotools, would it make sense to package geotools separate and make geoserver use this package?
New versions are often released together from developer.
A problem would be uDig, since it often comes with an older geotools version, which could make it necessary to have different versions of
geotools installed in parrallel

b)Do the sources in debian package only have to be compileable and provide already compiled binaries in binary debian package.
Or has the binary debian package to be build from source debian package which involves integration of a maven build system (which seems to be a lot work, as far as I know by now).

cheers

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