java

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 28 10:40:06 UTC 2005


Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't manage to build a java rpm for fc4 from the rpm-skeleton of 
> Jpackage.org and source from Sun                                   
> (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp).
> I can't figure out how to adjust the spec-file. Has somebody on this 
> list built this rpm succesfully? If so, how? What changes have to be 
> made in the specfile to make it work?
> I wonder why the rpm isn't simply being created when I carry out the 
> instructions on jpackage.org (http://www.jpackage.org/rebuilding.php), 
> since the only reason the nosrc-rpm has been built is to make an rpm out 
> of it together with the source from Sun. Perhaps I am doing something 
> wrong here.
> I know I can install the bin.file without creating an rpm, but for 
> obvious reasons I prefer the rpm.

Worked for me without making any changes to the spec file.

All I used were:
java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.03-1jpp.nosrc.rpm (from jpackage site)
jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin (from Sun site)

Paul.




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