Hello. This email is mainly for Gentoo Linux users/admins/developers. I write a draft version of XWiki ebuild (package analog) for Gentoo Linux distribution: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-467 ebuild in attachments install instructions in comments For now ebuild can (USE flags): war - simple build war in /usr/share/xwiki-svn-1.0/lib/xwiki.war exowar - build exo portlet integration war in /usr/share/xwiki-svn-1.0/lib/xwiki-exo.war standalone - build standalone distribution (embedded hsqldb and jetty) and install it in /usr/share/xwiki-svn-1.0/standalone run by /etc/init.d/xwiki start tomcat - deploy to tomcat6. simply symlink war file :) write what you want else? ebuild will checkout svn://svn.forge.objectweb.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki/branches/XWIKI_1_0 sources for building and uses ant for building. ebuild uses svn because xwiki haven't source distribution yet. But I think for test this ebuild svn is most suitable. Later we will needed source distribution for xwiki releases. ebuild allow to Gentoo user to install xwiki very easily without any knowledge in xwiki. I tested this ebuild on ~amd64 arch, sun-jdk-1.5 & 1.6 (with some patches allowing xwiki to compile at 1.6). I would like to hear some feedbacks,notes,misprints and bugs before we can propose this ebuild to Gentoo java-overlay or java-experimental overlay. -- Artem Melentyev, UralSU, CS401