[fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Vadim Nasardinov]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 12:52, Gary Benson wrote:
> There are several reasons not to do this but the showstopper is that
> if someone does 'yum install jonas-examples' on an empty system they
> will not get the native code.

You may extend the RPM spec file with an optional header like the
following:


    Name: jonas-examples

    ... yadda yadda yadda ...

    CanBeMassivelySpedUpBy: jonas-examples-compiled-by-gcj

With this in place, yum can now fetch jonas-examples-compiled-by-gcj
if is available.

This requires changes to both rpm and yum.  I have no idea how
feasible this would be, but I don't remember this option having been
discussed yet.