Bug 1126439 - tomcat - catalina-tasks.xml references missing servlet-api.jar
Summary: tomcat - catalina-tasks.xml references missing servlet-api.jar
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tomcat
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ivan Afonichev
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-04 12:54 UTC by James Le Cuirot
Modified: 2014-09-26 09:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20
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Last Closed: 2014-09-26 09:02:21 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description James Le Cuirot 2014-08-04 12:54:54 UTC
/usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml requires ${catalina.home}/lib/servlet-api.jar but /usr/share/tomcat/lib/servlet-api.jar is not present. This results in the following error.


jlecuirot@red ~ $ ant -f /usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml 
Buildfile: /usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml
Trying to override old definition of datatype resources

BUILD FAILED
/usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml:28: typedef A class needed by class org.apache.jasper.JspC cannot be found: javax/servlet/ServletException
 using the classloader AntClassLoader[/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/lib/tomcat-api.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/lib/tomcat-util.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/lib/jasper.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/lib/jasper-el.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/lib/catalina-ant.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/lib/tomcat-coyote.jar]

Total time: 0 seconds


/usr/share/tomcat/lib/tomcat-servlet-3.0-api.jar is present and I know there is a servlet "alternative" but it is not creating a necessary symlink. If I manually create a symlink and retry, I get this.


jlecuirot@red ~ $ ant -f /usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml 
Buildfile: /usr/share/tomcat/bin/catalina-tasks.xml
Trying to override old definition of datatype resources

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds


I have observed this with tomcat-7.0.47-1.fc20 and tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.47-1.fc20 but I believe the problem still exists in Rawhide. The following lines from the RPM spec are particularly noteworthy.


%{__mv} %{name}/servlet-api.jar %{name}-servlet-%{servletspec}-api.jar
%{__ln_s} %{name}-servlet-%{servletspec}-api.jar %{name}-servlet-api.jar

Comment 1 Ivan Afonichev 2014-08-04 20:54:38 UTC
I'am not sure if it can affect something if at the same tomcat shared lib path ( /usr/share/tomcat/lib/ ) there would be both tomcat-servlet-3.0-api.jar and servlet.jar
java can consider such situation as package conflict...
Maybe the best way would be to patch catalina-tasks.xml

Comment 2 James Le Cuirot 2014-08-05 08:40:49 UTC
Given that /usr/share/tomcat/lib/tomcat-servlet-3.0-api.jar is a symlink, wouldn't it be better to just rename that to servlet-api.jar as Tomcat expects?

Comment 3 Ivan Afonichev 2014-08-05 10:24:03 UTC
Other libs listed in catalina-tasks.xml also have another names. I think there was some reason to give them other names, not as in upstream.

Comment 4 James Le Cuirot 2014-08-05 10:34:16 UTC
Well I don't really mind, please do what you think is best.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-09-16 21:36:46 UTC
tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-09-19 10:13:39 UTC
Package tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-11048/tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 James Le Cuirot 2014-09-25 10:11:26 UTC
Works for me, thanks. Karma left.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-09-26 09:02:21 UTC
tomcat-7.0.52-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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