FC5 - quick yum fix for java plugin?

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 14:54 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:10 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > The problems you are seeing here are one of the reasons that the release
> > notes specifically advise against installing the Sun Java RPM. Moreover,
> > Sun's Java licensing prevents anyone else from distributing
> > better-packaged binary RPMs. So, your best option, albeit somewhat of a
> > hassle, is to build your own java RPMs the jpackage way.
> 
> Makes me wonder if it's possible for one of us to fix it up to a working
> condition, then hand the fix back to Sun, for them to distribute.

My understanding is that that's been tried and Sun aren't interested.

> Wasn't there a special, extra, repo for Java?

I thought that was JPackage.

Nobody can redistribute repackaged Sun binaries because that would break
the terms of Sun's license.

Paul.