Summary of the 2008-04-01 Packaging Committee meeting

[Andrew Overholt]

* Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> [2008-04-02 17:10]:
> Ditto would be noting somewhere that the process of removing Class-Paths from 
> manifests will break "java -jar foo.jar" invocations if foo.jar requires 
> additional user stuff in the classpath.  This is because $CLASSPATH, -cp 
> and -classpath are ignored with "java -jar"; only Class-Path in manifest 
> works with it.  The workaround is to not use -jar but use the main class name 
> instead, and set classpath the usual way as required.

Yup.

> Packagers should therefore not use "java -jar" in any scripts or docs,
> and this could be a good thing to note in end user docs as well.

Yeah.

Andrew
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/attachments/20080402/997ede2e/attachment.sig>