On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:07:09PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
>
> > Stefan Gybas wrote:
> >
> > > Basically yes, but IMHO this should be the decision of the local admin
> > > and not of the package maintainer. How could he know ig his package
> > > contains "standard" jars? This means that no package should automatically
> > > put jars or symlinks there. This would be /etc/java/default-classpath/ in
> > > my proposal.
>
> update-jars --install /usr/share/java/<foo>.jar <foo>.jar \
> /usr/share/java/<foo>-<ver>.jar <priority>
>
> This looks very much like update-alternatives, and in fact, it really is.
> However, update-jars does one additional item. It maintains reference counts.
> When the reference count is >= 1, then the jar gets added to the default
> classpath. For speed, this default classpath is created in the file
> /var/lib/java/def_classpath.
>
> Additionally, /etc/java/classpath is conffile(and gets all the normal dpkg
> treatment), which contains a reference to '@def_classpath@', which is replaced
> at runtime, by the appropriate wrappers.
>
> java-common should include the program update-jars, and, optionally,
> get_sysclasspath, which combines /etc/java/classpath and
> /var/lib/java/def_classpath.
This shounds quite interesting. Is it implemented, and if so
where can I find it. I have to take a look at it. :)
But why this reference counting?
Regards,
// Ola
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