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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:20:28 GMT
From:      Jiri Novak <bati@nostromo.cz>
To:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/75348: Tomcat port overwrites server.xml config file
Message-ID:  <200412220820.iBM8KSRC032065@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/75348; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jiri Novak <bati@nostromo.cz>
To: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Kang Liu <liukang@bjut.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: ports/75348: Tomcat port overwrites server.xml config file
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:10:56 +0100

 Herve Quiroz wrote:
 > Same here. I can't reproduce the error:
 > 
 > $ cd /usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat5
 > $ make install
 > 
 > [...]
 >         Installing local configuration file: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf/server.xml
 > [...]
 > 
 > $ echo "whatever" >/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf/server.xml
 > $ make deinstall
 > 
 > [...]
 > If permanently deleting this package, /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf/server.xml must be removed manually
 > [...]
 > 
 > $ make reinstall
 > 
 > [...]
 >         Preserving local configuration file: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf/server.xml
 > [...]
 > 
 > $ cat /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf/server.xml
 > whatever
 > 
 > 
 > Kang, BTW, that's not really related but I think we should do something for
 > the garbage output while deinstalling the port:
 > 
 > [...]
 > If permanently deleting this package, /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf/server.xml must be removed manually
 > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf'
 > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0'
 > pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is
 > incorrectly specified?)
 > [...]
 > 
 > A simple "@unexec rmdir jakarta-tomcat5.0/conf 2>/dev/null || true"
 > would probably be enough.
 > 
 > Herve
 > 
 
 As I wrote in my mail to Kang Liu, I did portupgrade -a on the system 
 which resulted in overwritten config files. I don't exactly know what 
 happened during build of tomcat, because some other ports was updated 
 too and I didn't "script" the upgrade session (stupid of me, I know).
 --
 Jiri Novak
 <bati@nostromo.cz>



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