On 5/23/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > If you want to find out how gentoo installs sun-jdk I suggest you > read the ebuild, I have had a quick look and it seems to use a > .bin file from Sun, not an rpm. > > It also looks as though a bit of trickery is used to unpack the bin > file.
if it's using the .bin which enables the ebuild to sidestep that bug then it doesn't follow that redhat, or whomever, couldn't put out an rpm using the same trickery. > The ebuild will also tell you where gentoo installs the package, > looks to be in the /opt directory, so I guess the ebuild is not > following the LFS either. ... heh, that's ironic. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
