On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
R P Herrold herrold@owlriver.com wrote:
IBM already releases one.
I assumed so.
Is there any way the IBMJava2 package can be distributed in CentOS Plus and/or Extras? BTW, I assume the compat-libs are already in CentOS itself?
There is both an IBM-variant JRE and the SDK, and a communications add-in, etc ... As I am currently investigating a differing behaviour between the Sun and IBM 1.4.2 variants, I think it is probably wiser to suggest that the latest stables be obtained directly from the upstream vendor from time to time, and a site local archive maintained instead, to install from. That way one knows what one is working with.
Any way to make these part of the post-install script?
It is certainly possible, as is a 'Requires:' to pull in the needed packages. They vary by name and availability between CentOS 3 and 4, and a single .spec file would need to accound for that.
A so-called dummy 'meta' RPM is the way to go. I will put one together and publish it on my site, and mention the URL here.
-- Russ Herrold