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package and git repository

Use the following snippet for your sources.list:

deb http://pkg-jboss.alioth.debian.org unstable/i386/
deb http://pkg-jboss.alioth.debian.org unstable/all/
deb-src http://pkg-jboss.alioth.debian.org unstable/source/

If you are member of the group pkg-jboss you can upload with the following dput configuration:

[pkg-jboss]
method = scp
fqdn = alioth.debian.org
incoming = /org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-jboss/htdocs/incoming/
post_upload_command = ssh alioth.debian.org mini-dinstall -b -c /org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-jboss/.mini-dinstall.conf

A git repo has been requested.

JBoss 5 TODOs/plan

jboss/hibernate related packages (only)

jbossas5

• not yet started
• define the layout of the binary packages FIRST
• create a inofficial package jbossas5-libs with all jar files that are not packaged for Debian but needed for the app server
• create a transitional package jbossas5 that (Build-)Depends: jbossas5-libs
• build a minimal package that can be uploaded to main

The following packages might be needed for jbossas5 but the list must be checked again.

jacorb

• existing ITP: [http://bugs.debian.org/349540 #349540]

• http://www.jacorb.org/

xmlsec

• preliminary package available at p.d.o/~twerner

libjboss-web-services-java

• very minimal package from old upstream code
• package should be updated

istack-commons

• https://istack-commons.dev.java.net/

rngom

• https://rngom.dev.java.net/

• easy

txw

• https://txw.dev.java.net/

• easy

xsom

• https://xsom.dev.java.net/

• easy

jaxb

• the JAXB API is already in Debian: libjaxme-java

• https://jaxb.dev.java.net/

• blocked by codemodel, com.sun.xml.dtdparser?, istack-commons-runtime, istack-commons-tools, rngom, txw, xsom
• Build-Depends: glassfish-activation, xml-commons-resolver1.1

jpl

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpl/ and http://www.swi-prolog.org/

• part of swi-prolog

• requested jpl addition: [http://bugs.debian.org/449437 #449437]

Information about jboss 4

Open bugs

We use [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00002.html BTS usertags] with user pkg-jboss-maintainer@lists.alioth.debian.org to keep track of bugs.

• ITPs and bugs concerning the [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=jboss-packaging;users=pkg-jboss-maintainer@lists.alioth.debian.org packaging] effort.

Thirdparty JARs

The JBoss 4.0.4rc1 source tarball contains several thirdparty packages under thirdparty/ which need to be compiled from source for Debian. This list tries to keep track of the current status:

Building with free tools

java-gcj-compat-dev

Calling build/build.sh (which in turn calls ant) fails very early with:

{{{ init:

_buildmagic:modules:most: BUILD FAILED

java.lang.?NoClassDefFoundError: while resolving class: org.jboss.util.Objects }}} Any hints on why this happens would be appreciated. Nevertheless the build succeeds in these subdirecories:

• common/
• jmx/
• j2ee/
• naming/

TODO

• complete the above table
• use Debian versions of thirdparty packages, where available
• package missing thirdparty stuff from the above table, that isn't already in Debian

• use Debian's ant instead of the one shipped with JBoss

• fix building with a free java compiler

Building the Debian Package from Alioth SVN

 (1) mkdir jboss && cd jboss
 (2) svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-jboss/jboss4/trunk jboss4
 (3) wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jboss/jboss-4.0.4.GA-src.tar.gz
 (4) tar zvxf jboss-4.0.4.GA-src.tar.gz
 (5) cd jboss4 && cp -rl ../jboss-4.0.4.GA-src/* .
 (6) debuild -us -uc

1. Create a build dir
2. Checkout debian package source

3. Get JBoss 4.0.4 from http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossas/download

4. Unpack the upstream source
5. Copy (actually hardlink) the upstream source into the Debian package source
6. Build the package

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