[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:29:29PM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Contrariwise... solaris DOES SHIP with a java runtime!

Uhm, Solaris 8 ships like jdk 1.2 or something.

> So our "java package", could merely be some kind of user-updatable symlink
> for /opt/csw/java, to point to /usr/java, for example.
> Ideally, with some comments and hints in our readme about where to get the 
> latest updates, etc, etc.
> 
> there's a few varients on this. for example we could have
> /opt/csw/bin/{jre,java} as symlinks or wrappers to somewhere....
> etc, etc.

To me, depending only on our own packages + base Solaris (of whatever 
version we're currently basing our stuff on) is what we need to do to 
deliver quality packages.

We need this. Maybe only for building packages, but still.

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Trygve