On Mon, 23 May 2005 03:46:27 +0100 THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/23/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's > > possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as > > the sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But > > no, that wouldn't make sense. Or would it? > ... > > there is sun/rpm bug at > <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;:YfiG?bug_id=4680244>, > and I'm sure there're more. Thanks to Nick Rout pointing out that yum > is a front end for rpm, I'll clarify my question: > > due to that bug, which I probably should've mentioned in my first > post, a JDK RPM doesn't exist (outside of JPackage). What is emerge > doing which allows it to bypass this bug? if my facts are in error, > please correct them.
If you want to find out how gentoo installs sun-jdk I suggest you read the ebuild, I have had a quick look and it seems to use a .bin file from Sun, not an rpm. It also looks as though a bit of trickery is used to unpack the bin file. The ebuild will also tell you where gentoo installs the package, looks to be in the /opt directory, so I guess the ebuild is not following the LFS either. Strictly this is a packaging bug, not a functional one - ie the sdk works, its just that people don't like where it puts the files. Basically I am not sure that it is a huge problem for gentoo. Thats because gentoo is not distrbuting alternative binary packages, just installing the Sun packages as it sees fit. > > > thanks, > > Thufir > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
