>From a message elsewhere in debian-java: * include j2se-package patch for Sun 1.5.0b2 see http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2004/06/msg00043.html
new package is available at following apt-line: deb http://yamaguch.sytes.net/~tora/tmp/mpkg-j2se ./ deb-src http://yamaguch.sytes.net/~tora/tmp/mpkg-j2se ./ I guess the change made there will be the way Debian goes. By the way, make sure you read licences. Sun Java J2SE 5 1.5 (how many version numbers do we really need) licence, clause 3.4: "Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed Software for productive or commercial use." Well, that blows. I don't think mpkg-j2se can be considered as having a release critical bug just because it doesn't work with some prerelease Sun software that isn't even usable (per the licence) anyway. On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:39:53 +0200, Robert Derochette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just discovered that j2se-package is now in unstable under the name > of mpkg-j2se. So I tested it, first with jdk-1_5_0-rc-linux-i586.bin but > mpkg-j2se is not compatible with java 1.5 rc. So I tried it with > jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin. mpkg-j2se works with this version. The > problem is, as Hubert Schmidt told me earlier, when run as root the java > 1.5 beta 2 installer puts a lot of files in /usr/share. If you did not > pay attention to this, then try : > > 1° Make sure you run in user mode, and your user has no write access to > /usr/share > 2° (user mode shell prompt) # fakeroot mpkg-j2se > /path/to/jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin > > Now watch all error messages displayed, messages such as : > > /home/robert/downloads/jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin: line 247: > /etc/mailcap: Permission denied > mkdir: Cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48': > Permission denied > mkdir: Cannot create directory > `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48': Permission denied > mkdir: Cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48': > Permission denied > cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png': > Permission denied > (... and lots more error messages like this ...) > > I did not know how to overcome this problem until I realized that Sun > Java installers were nothing more than zipfiles with more data in them > (the installation script and maybe the license agreement but nothing > really essential to install java correctly), so it was possible to > extract the content of the archive with unzip. Once all the files are > unzipped, you are almost done but for java >= 1.4 you have to extract > every file with the extension .pack to the same filename with the > extension .jar (a binary unpacker included in the java installer archive > does the job, it is deleted when installation is completed for java <= > 1.5 beta 1). Finally, for java >= 1.5 beta 1, there is also something > new : the Class Data Sharing Archive [1]. This file is not extracted > from the archive but generated from scratch after extraction is > completed. If you run twice the java installer, you'll most likely end > with two different |classes.jsa files. So after all this reverse > engineering, I've come with this small script. Note that this script > only works when run in an empty directory (it was made to be integrated > with mpkg-j2se, formerly j2se-package). Well, I've tried several Sun > Java versions from 1.3 to 1.5 rc with java-extract.sh and using the > standard installer run as fakeroot, and diff reports only a difference > in classes.jsa only for java 1.5 (the class data sharing archive that I > explained above). Well, now I don't know exactly if this way of > extracting the java data is legal (I did not manage to display the > license agreement before starting the extraction) and it seems a bit > inspired by the "ancient art of cracking ;-)". I have also integrated > javaextract.sh in a custom version of j2se-package [2], as I have > already posted in this mailing list. > > So my question is : "what are you going to do to overcome the problem of > all those files in /usr/share ?". Isn't it a release critical bug too ? > IIRC, java 1.5 beta 1 also puts files in /usr/share when run as root, > does that mean mpkg-j2se shouldn't support java >= 1.5 beta 1 ? > > Regards, > > Robert Derochette > | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/class-data-sharing.html > [2] http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~derochet/index.php (source > available directly at > http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~derochet/source/j2se-package_0.9b.tar.gz). > > > >
