Hello everyone. I'm fairly new to this list, and I'm badly over-saturated with mailing list subscriptions, so please be patient with me. :)
While trying to build debian packages of OpenNMS recently (we can talk about that in another thread if you prefer), I ran into the standard "Debian has no jdk1.4 problem" though I wanted to make my package correct by depending on a java2-runtime. So, I built my own wrapper to turn the Sun j2sdk1.4 into a .deb. I based some of the wrapper work on bits from the old ibm-jdk-installer package, and from some script tricks in the qmail-src and daemontools-src packages. Seeing that many others could probably use such a thing, and I could use some good feedback and suggestions, I would like to offer up my work. Quick summary: the sun-jdk1.4-installer package requires you to download the Sun linux j2sdk archive (since Sun requires you to do so and it's hard to automate around that), and it provides a "build-sun-jdk14" script that does the rest for you. It unpacks the archive, moves some files around, then rolls it into a .deb and even prompts you to install it, then cleans up after itself. The j2sdk1.4 package it creates provides java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime, and java2-compiler, which should satify the depends of several other (potential) packages. You can download it from: http://debian.medvantx.com/ under woody or sid-- one is for 1.4.0.03 and the other for 1.4.1.01. Feedback appreciated. Thanks! -Tony p.s. After building and using this, I ran into the mpkg-j2sdk. I haven't had a chance to dig into it yet, so maybe someone can tell me if it's already much better than my work, and if it's going to make it into unstable sometime soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
