[CentOS] Wait for 5 or just use 4.4?

[Paul Heinlein]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>
>>  My sense of adventure is fed enough by my self rolled packages on
>>  these servers, specially some including some patches made by
>>  myself :)
>
> Mine is getting java and maybe tomcat to run.  Is there any reason 
> to think that will be easier this time around?  Is there a way to 
> just remove all the non-Sun attempts to second-guess things and 
> those alternatives symlinks and get the real things in your normal 
> PATH?

I've completely punted with Tomcat. I just make a /opt/tomcat tree, 
shove both Sun's JRE and Apache's Tomcat in there, create a custom 
/etc/init.d/tomcat script, and call it good. I keep a tarball of the 
tree and all relevant configs on a network drive, available for 
kickstart %post installation. Getting the gcj-compiled version of 
Tomcat to work with Java keystores was an exercise in futility.

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