[fedora-java] recommendations for coexistence with Sun-jre

[Zlatin Balevsky]

Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

>On 6/17/05, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:54 -0400, Zlatin Balevsky wrote:
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>>>Is there an officially supported/recommended way of having Sun java
>>>coexist with the -compat?
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>>Yes, we recommend creating a Sun JPackage RPM, then installing that.
>>All the java tools in /usr/bin will then point to Sun's Java
>>implementation.
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>And in case you're unfamiliar with JPackage, that's easy to do; a quick
>paraphrase of http://jpackage.org/rebuilding.php:
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>1. Download and install the nosrc rpm http://jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=2546
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>2. Put the Sun package in your rpmbuild/SOURCES
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>3. rpmbuild -ba rpmbuild/SPECS/java....spec
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>4. enjoy your RPMs in rpmbuild/RPMS/
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>5. Add your name and a comments to 
>http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4680244.html 
>to get Sun to produce reasonable RPMs in the first place!
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That is all swell for me and you guys, but my target audience are 
desktop end-users - any need to use the shell or any extra steps are 
very detrimental to their experience.  Is it possible to automate all 
these steps in the preinstall / postinstall scripts of a stub rpm?