Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 10/09/2010 04:33 AM, Milos Blazevic wrote: Bob Stine wrote: Milos Blazivec wrote: /... I am, in fact, interested in making adjustments to the Wiki / /page - but sadly not the ones you proposed Bob, since the just won't do / /the trick./ Hmm. I ran the executed the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/10/10 08:32, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: snip At least the jre package (and I am almost sure jdk too) from Sun comes with the following structure: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 10 01:25 default - /usr/java/latest drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 28 23:34 jre1.6.0_20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

[CentOS-docs] but what if i don't care about centos 4?

2010-10-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
absolutely serious question -- i appreciate that it's important to still document how things are done in centos 4, but i have precisely zero interest in that. given how long centos 5 has been out, and that centos 6 is not that far down the road given the alleged release schedule for RHEL 6

Re: [CentOS-docs] but what if i don't care about centos 4?

2010-10-09 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 05:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: so while i'm more than happy to write/update docs, i won't be spending any time whatsoever with centos 4. so what does one do under those circumstances? again, this is a perfectly serious question. i know it's not fair to

Re: [CentOS-docs] but what if i don't care about centos 4?

2010-10-09 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 9 October 2010 11:52, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  in any event, the question remains -- should all centos doc pages give equally meticulous coverage to both centos 4 and 5? The CentOS wiki exists to provide documentation for all CentOS products. As CentOS-4 is a valid

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/10/10 13:13, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Ned Slider wrote: Are these redistributable? I'm sure they are as Red Hat has Sun's Java packages on it's RHEL Supplementary disk for RHEL5 which it (re)distributes to customers. No, not without exposing oneself to some liability and

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 10/09/2010 12:47 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 09/10/10 08:32, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: snip At least the jre package (and I am almost sure jdk too) from Sun comes with the following structure: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 10 01:25 default - /usr/java/latest drwxr-xr-x 7 root root

[CentOS-docs] Suggestion for how to section: easy way to install the JDK?

2010-10-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: As Russ has said, they are not. More context (said in our back archive, but recapped recently [and it should have crossed http://planet.centos.org/ when I issued this update] at http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/08/chickens-coming-home-to-roost.html