[fedora-java] Moving aot-compile-rpm and rebuild-gcj-db out of java-gcj-compat

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:26 +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > David Walluck writes:
> > > Also, I thought aot-compile was a good script, but it was done
> > > away with. Wouldn't it make sense to bring this back and have a
> > > script that didn't rely on rpm, and then have rpm call this script
> > > instead? This way, not only other RPM-based distros, but possibly
> > > Debian or Ubuntu could even pick it up.
> >  
> > aot-compile-rpm doesn't rely on RPM at all -- it's just REALLY badly
> > named!  :-)
> 
> Not strictly true. It does have RPM-specific bits, but they're very
> very small: 10 lines out of 436.  I spoke to some of the Debian and
> Ubuntu guys at DevJam about abstracting it but that's difficult to do
> whilst it's alternatives-managed.

Making aot-compile-rpm alternatives-managed was a mistake on my part,
and one of the reasons I started this discussion.

Tom