[ale] how to slurp the rpm juice

[Scott McBrien]

There is such a thing as a drpm or Delta RPM, but don't do it.  Just repackage the vanilla plus your changes into a full rpm.  I would urge you, however, to go with the SLES tomcat and add an additional rpm with your changes.  That way you can continue to get updates and the like from SUSE and only have to maintain your extra bits.

-Scott

On May 30, 2013, at 10:20 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:

> Friends:
> 
> On SLES software is installed using rpm.  But then you can install the rpm with 
> rpm -iv or yast -i or even zypper (I am not that smart, answer is courtesy Allen)
> 
> My requirement is this
> 
> There is the base tomcat rpm provided on the web which is vanilla version.
> 
> We have gone ahead and customized the tomcat with
> 
> more jars in the  lib folder in addition to the existing jars from vanilla version
> added thirdLibs folder under TOMCAT_HOME (/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.37)
> added axisLib under TOMCAT_HOME
> added wsLib under TOMCAT_HOME
> modified the .sh file under the bin folder 
> modified the props and xml files under the conf folder
> 
> I am to build an rpm only of the DELTAS.
> 
> Determining the DELTAS is itself a task-at-hand which I will have to resolve some how.
> 
> Once I determine that I plan to .tar.gz that and create an rpm from it.
> 
> creating rpm's is a diff question which I am already working on.
> 
> Is there a higher level packaging than rpm  or that rpm is it ?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time and attention.
> 
> -N
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