Java problem

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 21:55:50 UTC 2007


David Boles wrote:

>> Real _what_?  If you execute java in fedora, you'll get something that
>> is not java and won't successfully execute many java programs.
> 
> So use something else. You do know how to add and remove rpm packages
> right?  ;-)
> 
> Ah come on Les. You know why they don't include Sun's Java. For pretty
> much the same reason they don't include your beloved codecs. Non FOSS.

Errr, no, this time is it because they want you to buy RHEL with support 
and access to: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0963.html.  But 
you can pretend that it would be illegal to even supply symlinks from 
the baroque locations that java is expected to live on RH/fedora to the 
place that the official distribution puts it if it makes you happy.

> And what specific Fedora provided java application does not work?

Java works or it doesn't.  It doesn't care about a subset of packages.

> And I will say this. The Icedtea has improved a lot. But as long as
> people *immediately* bailout things are not going to improve. Did you
> report (bugzilla) this tragic event you had? If you did not just how do
> you expect anyone to fix it?

I thought there was a compatibility test.  Does everything being 
distributed and executed with the java name pass?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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