> I tried to repackage the post-install structure but ran into runtime errors 
> that
> I never had time to diagnose.
> The reason for this new scheme seems to be to get us to read the license
> agreement (all 50-odd pages), so a repackaging that circumvents that might
> be unacceptable if it was distributed outside a single customer.

*mumble* couldn't that be done in the post-install script or outside the 
package somehow *mumble* bloody lawyers *mumble*...

> When this new packaging first appeared, I asked our IBM rep if there would
> be an RPM version available as well.  I never got an answer.

Guess it's time to package our port of the OpenJDK code. 

C'mon, IBM, you know the value of not circumventing the packaging system by 
now....

8-(

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