Need to rm /home/tomcat/tomcat/webapps/{app name} during deployment

[wayne-t]

Otherwise, even the .war file is copied to here: /home/tomcat/tomcat/webapps/ , /home/tomcat/tomcat/webapps/{app name} directory will be empty after tomcat started. .war is not exploded since {app name} direction exists already.

Also tested on 'tds deploy rollback'. It has the same problem.

[Stelminator]

sounds like you're missing a file declaration (for the directory) in your rpm definition (spec file or fpm argument to generate the same).

[Stelminator]

if you're using fpm, --rpm-auto-add-directories might just do the trick. otherwise: either %dir (spec file), or --directories (fpm, but explicit).

[wayne-t]

Thanks @Stelminator, I will try that later.
More background: the problem was found with a rpm generated by a sbt jenkins job. All rpms generated by maven jobs do not have this problem 'cuz mappings were done on exploded .war files instead of .war file itself. The quick fix we figured out yesterday was having this line in packaging.scala file:
rpmPost := Option("sudo rm -r /home/tomcat/tomcat/webapps/{app directory name}")