I wish I could upgrade to 1.6. We just upgraded to the 1.5 jdk. The
rpms I have do not create a symlink.
Thanks!
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On May 12, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hems...@codefarm.com
> wrote:
>
> I think you picked a bad example :)
>
> Java installs a symlink /usr/java/latest which points to (surprise!)
> the
> latest version that is installed.
>
> Or maybe this is a Java 1.6 thing in which case you might want to
> accelerate your migration
>
> Edward Bailey wrote:
>> To explain the background behind my question
>>
>> We have a number of situations where it would be great if I could
>> have
>> puppet automatically maintain a symlink for a resource such as the
>> Java JVM.
>>
>> For example - we install the JDK in /usr/java so after the RPM
>> install, the path to the JVM is /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_16. In order to
>> simplify application configuration, I like to make JAVA_HOME
>> something
>> generic like /usr/java/java. I do this by creating a symlink
>>
>> ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_16/ /usr/java/java
>>
>> I would like to have puppet maintain the symlink so that when YUM
>> updates the JVM, the symlink gets updated as well. I know I could do
>> this in the RPM or using exec but that sounds like too much work:)
>>
>> Just for fun I tried to setup a file type in puppet to create the
>> symlink using a wildcard. I did not expect this to work given the
>> need
>> for shell expansion.
>>
>> file { "/usr/java/java":
>> ensure => "/usr/java/jdk1.*"
>> }
>>
>> Is their another way to do this in the puppet framework? I can do
>> this
>> using exec, but I wanted to work from within puppet first.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>>
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