On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > one person asked if we were to create a PPA package for Ubuntu. FTR (I > had no idea what it was), a PPA is a Personal Package Archive > (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA), so basically, a repository > that you can create and that wll contain your own packages. It may be > useful in a company that develops their own packages, when they want to > make them available to all their computers. > > IMHO, it seems totally overkilling, unless someone wants to take care of > it and maintain it (I won't). And there is a coraletral problem : how > will we manage to setup a correct version of Java if we provide an > ApacheDS package ? > > this is the blocker when I tried to work on a PPA sometime ago, Oracle Java is not available in the public repos and we have never tested the server with IcedTea and OpenJDK. Thoughts ? > >
