[CentOS] Java support : is there a native package ?

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:18, Matt Hyclak wrote:
 
> > OK, so you need a .spec file and a couple of lines of script.  The point
> > is that the hard and unnecessary part is finding all the stuff yourself
> > in the first place.  Instead of directions that point to distribution
> > agnostic and vague directions, why can't we have something that just
> > installs it for us?
> 
> Because it's a distribution agnostic process?

So is every other application we have until someone bundles it
for the distribution.

> Directions for CentOS:
> 
> 1. Create an RPM build tree as per
>    ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/hacks/rpmbuild-nonroot-1.0.tar.gz
> 
> 2. Download java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.05-1jpp.nosrc.rpm from
>    http://jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=3033
> 
> 3. rpm -i java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.05-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
> 
> 4. Download JDK 5.0 Update 5 from
>    http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=jdk-1.5.0_05-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg
> 
> 5. Put jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586-rpm.bin in your SOURCES directory created in
>    step 1.
> 
> 6. rpmbuild -ba SPECS/java-1.5.0-sun.spec
> 
> 7. Install the resulting RPMS, or put them in your local yum repository.
>    
> 
> I'm not trying to be a jack@$$ here, but I'm really not sure what you want.
> I laid it out in 7 steps, and I'm not sure you could make it much shorter.

It could be one step if those instructions were slightly altered
to become an executable shell script.  Having the script run as
part of an installation or system setup and something that checks
for updates would make it even nicer.  Does the jpackage rpm you mention
take care of twiddling the symlinks of the alternatives system that
I have never been able to find documentation about?

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  Les Mikesell
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