[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

Trygve Laugstøl trygvel at opencsw.org
Mon Nov 3 16:29:29 CET 2008


Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently thinking of packaging the JDKs / JREs to CSW packages.
> There is this license thing that they may be shipped when an application
> needs them. How about preventing normal installation but allowing
> installation when they are listed as dependency?

What Debian and Ubuntu (and possibly others) do is that they have a
package to create the Java packages. It take the downloaded bundle as
input and give you a .deb out with generated dependency information. We
(you) could start there as a starting point.

--
Trygve



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