Does anyone have a working tomct6 RPM and/or a working ant-1.7 RPM for RHEL 4?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

I've got a developer who uses a manually compiled tomcat6 and ant-1.7
in a CentOS 4 system, and wants to use those tools on a project in a
cleanly built environment. I've been looking at the build toolchain
for those from RedHat "JBEAP" sources for RHEL 4 for tomcat6 , and
it's... pretty painful to build from scratch.

Does anyone already have that built for CentOS 4? Jpackage seems to
have abandoned support for RHEL 4 understandably, with their newer
"6.0" release, so I don't expect a lot of help from that quarter.

Similarly, this developer or another one built ant-1.7 manually rather
than using the ant-1.6.5 available for RHEL or CentOS, and I'd
appreciate the RPM or hints on the toolchain to build it as an RPM. I
really don't want to have to bundle their already compiled binaries
into a no-src RPM. I hate doing that.

I could propably do these from scratch myself with my RPM experence,
but I lack Java experience, and it would suck away time I need for
other work.

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

I've got something working. With some hints from the jpackage mailing
list, I've raided http://mirror.dotsrc.org/jpackage/5.0/ for tomcat6
and the updated their "java-son-compat" package needed to make it play
nicely with an installed Sun provided jdk-6u13, and make it possible
to resolve all the dependencies.

That doesn't get me ant-1.7, we'll see next week if I really need that.