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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