Hello, Petr. Is that an acceptable solution? -tdc
On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:01:31AM -0800, Tom Childers wrote: > >> Looking at this case, which has been sitting for a couple of weeks, I >> realize that Petr has raised an issue that we need to clarify. If >> we use >> links in /usr/share/java to point to the most recent version of each >> component, and underlying components can be delivered by different >> packages, then links may get changed and cause things to break. >> >> Can we simply assume that IPS handles this situation correctly? >> If so, are we requiring that all of these FOSS projects going into >> OpenSolaris use IPS? > > Those links need each to be delivered exactly once on a system, by > just one > package. No packaging system can deal with a single file being > delivered > multiple times by conflicting package developers. > > I'd suggest that projects either directly use the versioned jar file > that's > most appropriate for their needs, or install a symlink in a private > directory to the jar file they need, and put that in their classpath. > Perhaps there are other alternatives, too. > > Danek
