[fedora-java] Re: [JPackage-discuss] extension directories

[Anthony Green]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:50 -0500, David Walluck wrote:
> Anthony Green wrote:
> > I don't think gcj-endorsed is the right place for this.  In theory this
> > should only contains .jar files for classes in the blessed endorsed
> > namespace.  The bouncycastle jar files should go in java.ext.dirs.  
> 
> I just tried the latest java-gcj-compat (62) rpm and are you suggesting
> moving the bcprov jar there? Currently, if it's not in
> /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed, then gcj cannot find it. Note, this is
> where jessie and gnu-crypto are already and bc is no different as far as
> I can see.

I'd like to suggest that we move all of these providers out
of /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed and into the appropriate extensions
directory.  My understanding is that's where providers belong, and the
endorsed directories are reserved for packages within the special
endorsed namespaces.

> Also, some of the symlinks in /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed are
> versioned, while others are not. What is the policy here?

No idea.

AG