On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:28 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 20:03 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> If you need the latest/greatest, to play nicely, I can publish my >> .spec files for the various Sun/Oracle published components. My >> "jpackage-utils-compat-el5" package, in particular resolves some the >> RHEL/CentOS spacific requirements for the wildly out of date >> jpackage-utils components. > > Well having not being able to understand why some people can not make a > simple sym link baffles me really bad. Would be great if I could catch > a look-see at the specs you got... > > John They're here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.jpackage.general/14404 in archives of this list. I'm.... reluctant to say "here, stuff in extra symlinks in /usr/bin just for one package that are not actually part of that package". That way lies maintenance madness. It *is* possible to compile an RPM differently under different releases. or to it in a separate compatibility widget. (I went through that with OpenSSH recently, a custom version someone built on RHEL 3 and expected to work on RHEL 5: it was very confused about where "xauth" was.) But I'm looking at http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/, and I'm not even seeing hooks for RHEL 4. Is it worth pursuing compatibility with that OS? Are other people using it?