--On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:35 PM +0200 Simon Matter via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:> If I don't find usable RPMs for CentOS 8 I'm going to build our own as I > do for other things as well. But I just can't believe they don't already > exist.Some upstream providers have taken to providing their own repositories. I'm now getting Nginx, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL from the source that way. Perhaps Tomcat has its own upstream repo.
> --On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:35 PM +0200 Simon Matter via CentOS > <centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> If I don't find usable RPMs for CentOS 8 I'm going to build our own as I >> do for other things as well. But I just can't believe they don't already >> exist. > > Some upstream providers have taken to providing their own repositories. > I'm > now getting Nginx, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL from the source that way. > Perhaps Tomcat has its own upstream repo.But then why would you want to use CentOS for it or even pay for RHEL if you can have all this packaged nicely in FreeBSD? Plus, as a long term Unix and Linux user I feel much more at home on FreeBSD these days than I feel on CentOS 7 or 8. Even Fedora provides Tomcat 9 which I'm calling an enterprise feature. How can an enterprise distribution lack such an important and widely used feature? Regards, Simon
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:16:45PM +0200, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:> But then why would you want to use CentOS for it or even pay for RHEL if > you can have all this packaged nicely in FreeBSD? Plus, as a long term > Unix and Linux user I feel much more at home on FreeBSD these days than I > feel on CentOS 7 or 8. Even Fedora provides Tomcat 9 which I'm calling an > enterprise feature. How can an enterprise distribution lack such an > important and widely used feature?Upstream (RHEL) supports JBoss (aka WildFly) which is probably why it's not packaging Tomcat anymore. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>