Paul, Thanks for the answer, but i think i mislead you. Lets say, the installation checking the port available during the installation. If the port is not available, ask for user input. Or, lets say Oracle SID...etc. How can i ask for user inputs? If I cannot do it with RPM, then how do you guys approach this type of issues? Thanks Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nasrat" <pauln@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Installation Questions during the rpm installation > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:29:36PM -0700, Baz wrote: > > All, > > > > I think I post this question before and the reply is "There is no > > interaction during rpm installation". > > > > My question now is: Do you guys create rpm installer that do not ask > > questions? For example, if your application is relying on > > TOMCAT_HOME and your rpm installation can detect it, and what if rpm > > annot find it? > > Tomcat should be installed by rpm so tomcat home is known (and a FHS compliant) > - see http://jpackage.org/ for many java packages - for jpackage you'd install > to /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/foo > > For this case the answer is simple though - use a prefix and make a relocatable package as long as your web app is self contained - ie: > > foo/WEB-INF/{web.xml,lib,classes} > foo/foo.jsp ... > > A relocatable rpm works well for the case of tomcat home > > > What will you do to get user input? Will you use a > > shell scripts to invoke the rpm installation? > > You don't get user input - the user can relocate using rpm --prefix > /opt/jakarta-tomcat/webapps > > If the user is not using rpm to install tomcat but then using rpm to install > webapps this is problematic to start with - relocation is probably the correct > approach. > > The point though is intresting as if you have multiple instances of tomcat > would you want to install to all instances (eg tomcat3, tomcat4), this stuff > needs to be thought about as part of the Common Java Packaging effort. > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
