perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Szymon Trocha schreef:
> Gijs Molenaar wrote:
>
> > In the minutes of
> >
> > http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/MDM_perfSONAR_3.0_Conf_call_08_Jan_2008 
> >
> >
> > there is a common action note that developers should read the build 
> > guide with a note about RPM.
> >
> > Question> Where can I find this? It is not in the Wiki, or I can't 
> > find it. Search function in wiki is close to worthless.
>
> Hi Gijs,
>
> Look into SVN: trunk\perfsonar-doc\release-management

Thanks Szymon, this has been very helpful. But there is still one 
question unanswered:

I quote myself: "Question> I think this question has been asked before, 
but I still think it is very important. Do we still provide our own 
tomcat installation? If we build an RPM, why not depend on the tomcat of 
the distribution. This is making live so much easier, for developers and 
maintainers." I've taken a look at the tomcat installed by the 
perfsonar-tomcat package, and there isn't that much different, only the 
username/password fields in tomcat-users.xml had been removed and I had 
to add it again to use the manager.

Anyway, if we are going the 'build our own tomcat package way', why is 
everything installed in /home/perfsonar? The LSB (linux standard base) 
guide sort of describes that  all software packages that you don't know 
where to install should be put into '/opt'.

- gijs