tomcat55 port on AMD64

[Frank Laszlo]

Alex M. Alvarez A. wrote:
> It seems to me excellent that it is the primary port in the future, but this
> is not upgrade is a new servant of which it requires tomcat.
>
> And linux_base-fc3 is i386 not amd64!
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Boris Samorodov
> Sent: Jueves, 11 de Mayo de 2006 10:43
> To: alex.alvarez at freebsd.cl
> Cc: ports at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: tomcat55 port on AMD64
>
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 09:16:09 -0400 Alex M. Alvarez A. wrote:
>
>   
>> fetch:
>>
>>     
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/i386/8.0/glibc-common-
>   
>> 2.3.2-4.80.8.amd64.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/amd64/8.0 and try again.
>> *** Error code 1
>>     
> <..SNIP..>
> New linux_base-fc3 port doesn't have this problem. And it is going to
> become a default linux base ports at the near future.
>
> To upgrade use smth like:
>
> # portupgrade -o emulators/linux_base-fc3 linux_base-8
> # portupgrade -f linux-*
>
> If you have any problems fill free to write me. Any feedback is
> appreciated.
>
>
> WBR
>   

I submitted a patch[1] to fix this issue some time ago, It has to do
with the way linux ports handle ARCH, since the linux emulation port
doesn't work on amd64, its forced to use i386 rpm's. Unfortunately my
efforts were shun by a brick wall, and no changes were made to address
this. I am going to repeat this one more time, ARCH should NEVER be
overwritten, here is yet another example of why.

[1]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91911

-Frank laszlo