Fedora and JPackage proprietary JDK shims
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Sat May 3 04:40:37 UTC 2008
Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
>> Not sure, but I bet the "shim" is the java-sun-compat package that lets
>> you install the Sun RPM, then sets up alternatives and other symlinks to
>> make the expected incantations work. That is not a nosrc package,
>> though it may have no actual source. It depends on the Sun RPM from
>> java.sun.com.
>
> Yeah, that's what was under discussion, or at least it's what I
> thought Les wanted.
>
I know Les mentioned the nosrc rpms in the same email as he complained
that Fedora wasn't shipping something that he felt was necessary for
java-on-Fedora. So I thought it best to have that clarified.
-Toshio
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