On Monday 23 May 2005 12:12, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > Why? gentoo is not distributing sun-jdk. a binary rpm would be. > > read the ebuild. read the license. > > pardon, where's the ebuild? I can't find it. I can only infer that > an rpm cannot be created from a .bin file while an ebuild can.
I've ignore most of the rest of this thread, so excuse me if this has been
covered already.
gimli root # emerge search sun-jdk
Searching... y
[ Results for search key : sun-jdk ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* dev-java/sun-jdk
Latest version available: 1.4.2.08
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 35,576 kB
Homepage: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/
Description: Sun's J2SE Development Kit
License: sun-bcla-java-vm
An RPM is a binary archive of a package, it's a self contained entity.
An ebuild is just a recipe to build and install a package. It knows where to,
or how to, download the code, and/or, binaries it needs.
Sun's licence does not allow third parties to distribute their code, or
binaries.
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Mike Williams
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