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* net-www/jboss-3.2.5

SERVER_HOME Changes
-------------------

Prior to this release in Portage, the SERVER_HOME (ie. /var/lib/jboss)
used to deploy user applications was maintained with CONFIG_PROTECT.
There are a few problems with this approach:

    1. Upon updating, you may have to merge over 100 files with
       etc-update.

    2. Most of the files in SERVER_HOME are binary in nature and do
       not benifit from CONFIG_PROTECT.

    3. The CONFIG_PROTECT mechanism is only capable of merging files.
       Thus the mechanism cannot support updates which require old
       files in SERVER_HOME to be removed.

Release net-www/jboss-3.2.5 onward will no longer maintain SERVER_HOME
with CONFIG_PROTECT.  Instead of this, we recommended you to consider
creating your own SERVER_HOME sub-directory based on the 3 templates
provided by the JBoss installation (ie. SERVER_HOME/all,
SERVER_HOME/default and SERVER_HOME/minimal).

After you have made your own SERVER_HOME sub-directory, simply
annotate /etc/conf.d/jboss so that JBoss uses your SERVER_HOME
sub-directory rather than the default one. e.g.

    cp -a /var/lib/jboss/default /var/lib/jboss/myserver
    sed -i 's,^\(JBOSS_CONF=\).*,\1"myserver",g' /etc/conf.d/jboss

Log4J Changes
-------------

The log4j.xml configuration file now sets prority INFO for
"org.apache.commons" category which is extremely noise at DEBUG
priority.


Authors of this Document
------------------------

Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@gentoo.org>
