Totem=noshow

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 04 December 2006 09:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to do this, so its a valid part of the rpm database, can I
>>> get the .spec file somewhere?  Or, maybe even better, get it in the
>>> right format from the OpenJava site, but the propaganda all reads like
>>> its source only & doesn't seem to say if it will build with the
>>> current gcc.
>>
>> As I (sort of) pointed out in another post, the best bet is the NOSRC
>> rpms for Sun Java from jpackage.org.  You grab the .nosrc.rpm from
>> jpackage and the .bin installer from Sun and follow the instructions on
>> the jpackage site.
>
> Which seems to have been pretty well hidden, so far all I've found are the
> src rpms.  The .bin installer I have, unpacked even.  But yum can't find
> the -fc .xml's for fc6 because nothing newer than fc4 is available.  So I
> disabled that repo in order for yumex to proceed.
>
> The only likely looking candidate is in non-free, and is labeled:
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.09.jpp-noarch
> which claims to be the jpackage compatibilty for suns jdk of the same
> version number.  Unforch, its 1.5.0.10 I have the .bin for.
>
> I'm going to grab it with yum and see what it might be.
>
> But that's not going to fly:
> Missing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_09-fcs is needed by package
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat
>
> And I don't believe this package is available as the fc5 & fc6 listings
> aren't even there when I look at the mirrors.  What are we going to have
> to do, wait 2 years before OpenJava gets mature enough to use?

It's pretty obscure, as it turns out.  Visit 
http://jpackage.org/browser/browse.php?jppversion=1.7 and scroll down to 
the bottom, where the "nonfree" packages are listed.

>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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