Adding JSVC_CLASSPATH to /etc/default/tomcat6

[Stephan Rügamer]

Binary package hint: tomcat6

Dear Colleagues,

right now it's not possible to add a special classpath to tomcat6.
The $JSVC_CLASSPATH is only set in the init script of tomcat6, and after the default file was read and sourced in.

I would like to propose a change of that.

We could add a JSVC_CLASSPATH to /etc/default/tomcat6 and adding this variable to the already existing $JSVC_CLASSPATH in /etc/init.d/tomcat6...

A proposed patch you can find attached to this report.

Regards,

\sh

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Thanks, will commit that soon in a tomcat6 lucid update :)

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

<\sh> we can go with a better solution with some shell magic..e.g. setting JSVC_CLASSPATH in default to empty... and in /etc/init.d/tomcat6 if [ -z "$JSVC_CLASSPATH" ]; then JSVC_CLASSPATH="<the standard stuff>" else JSVC_CLASSPATH="$JSVC_CLASSPATH:<the standard stuff>" fi

<\sh> ttx, or just set the default settings in /etc/default/tomcat6 and use it as well in the init script...so we are clean...all defaultsettings are set where it really belongs :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat6 - 6.0.20-8ubuntu1

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tomcat6 (6.0.20-8ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/control, debian/rules: Do not use 3.0 (quilt) source format yet
  * debian/tomcat6.default: Fix typos in "JSVC" and "remote", missing newline
  * debian/tomcat6.default, debian/tomcat6.init: Handle JSVC_CLASSPATH
    default value the same way as other defaults

tomcat6 (6.0.20-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected some spelling mistakes in debian/control.
    (Closes: #557377, #557378)
  * Added patches to install the OSGi metadata in some of the jars.
    (Closes: #558176)
  * Updated 03catalina.policy to allow "setContextClassLoader".
    - Fixes a problem where Sun's JVM would fail to generate log-files.
    (Closes: LP: #410379)
  * Updated /etc/default/tomcat6:
    - Clarified that JAVA_OPTS are passed to jscv and not the JVM.
    - Updated the JSP_COMPILER to javac (jikes is not in Debian anymore).
    (Closes: LP: #440685)
  * Use default-jdk and default-jre-headless instead of openjdk in
    (Build-)Depends.
  * Added more alternatives for java implementations to the Depends of
    libservlet2.5-java.
  * Exposed JSVC_CLASSPATH to the configuration file.
    (Closes: LP: #475457)
  * Updated description so it no longer refers to non-existent package.
    (Closes: #559475)
  * Used "set -e" in postinst and postrm instead of passing "-e" to sh
    in the #!-line.
  * Changed to 3.0 (quilt) source format.

tomcat6 (6.0.20-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * New patch fix_context_name.patch:
    - Allow Service name != Engine name. Regression in fix for 42707.
      Fix https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47316
    - This has been fixed in trunk and will be in 6.0.21
  * Register libservlet2.5-java-doc API with doc-base
  * Fix short description of tomcat6-docs by using "documentation" suffix

tomcat6 (6.0.20-6) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Ludovic Claude ]
  * tomcat6.postinst: set the ownership of files in /etc/tomcat6/
    to root:tomcat6, to prevent an attacker running inside a tomcat6
    instance to change the tomcat configuration
  * debian/policy/02debian.policy: grant access to
    /usr/share/maven-repo/ as it is a valid source of Debian JARs.
    (Closes: #545674)
  * Bump up Standards-Version to 3.8.3
    - add debian/README.source that describes the quilt patch system.
  * debian/control: Add Conflicts on libtomcat6-java with old versions
    of tomcat6-common (Closes: #542397)

  [ Michael Koch ]
  * Replace dh_clean -k by dh_prep.
  * Added Ludovic and myself to Uploaders.
  * Build-Depends on debhelper >= 7.

tomcat6 (6.0.20-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix jsp-api dependency in the Maven descriptors.
  * Put tomcat-juli.jar in /usr/share/java instead of juli.jar.
    This fixes a broken link which prevented tomcat to start
    when logging is turned on, and restores the file layout
    defined in 6.0.20-2.
  * Restore links to the jars in usr/share/tomcat6/lib
  * Change watch to download fresh sources from SVN.
    Should fix wrong encoding in tomcat-i18n-fr/es.jar in the next upstream
    version. (Closes: #522067)
  * Update ...