take a look at jpackage.org, it's used bu RH, MDK and SUSE and it has
been started with cross distro compatibility in mind.
2005/5/12, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005, Henri Gomez wrote:
> >Did you take a look at jpackage project, a rpm java distribution ?
>
> I didn't -- probably because I don't ``Do Java'' much beyond installing the
> java interface for OpenPKG.org and similar things. My Real Work(tm) tends
> to be done in python or perl.
>
> >www.jpackage.org
> >
> >2005/5/12, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> On Thu, May 12, 2005, Michael Schloh wrote:
> >> >Triggered by a thoughtful observation from Matthias KURZ [0], we
> >> >considered how the future package structure should be for packages
> >> >containing java bytecodes (.jar or .class files). Please post objections
> >> >to the standard we concluded on.
> >> >
> >> >A java package contains bytecode files in %{l_prefix}/lib/<pkgname>
> >> >along with all its runtime resources.
> >> >
> >> >The j2se package itself stays in %{l_prefix}/libexec/j2se due to its
> >> >platform specific code.
> >> >
> >> >So for example in the instance /openpkg we have:
> >> >
> >> > /openpkg/libexec/j2se
> >> > /openpkg/lib/ant
> >> >
> >> >It is unclear if a new abstraction is needed along the lines of
> >> >the package perl-openpkg. If so it would be called java-openpkg.
> >> >The main question is how to coerce java bytecode to recognize
> >> >the redirected destination paths of any resource dependencies.
> >>
> >> Some of this was discussed in a thread I started in March 2003,
> >> subject ``Java CLASSPATH Standards''. On 6 March 2003, Michael
> >> Schloh von Bennewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> There's no standard so let's make one ;-) %{l_prefix}/lib/java/
> >> is generic and makes sense to me. If nobody complains, then
> >> it's the new CLASSPATH standard and will be documented as such.
> >>
> >> There are already some jar files installed to
> >> %{l_prefix}/libexec/j2se/, but I think we need to leave those
> >> there (Sun has their own standard for where to find things.) I
> >> ponder symlinks to %{l_prefix}/lib/java/, though.
> >>
> >> Bill
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