On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 14:54 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:10 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > The problems you are seeing here are one of the reasons that the release > > notes specifically advise against installing the Sun Java RPM. Moreover, > > Sun's Java licensing prevents anyone else from distributing > > better-packaged binary RPMs. So, your best option, albeit somewhat of a > > hassle, is to build your own java RPMs the jpackage way. > > Makes me wonder if it's possible for one of us to fix it up to a working > condition, then hand the fix back to Sun, for them to distribute. My understanding is that that's been tried and Sun aren't interested. > Wasn't there a special, extra, repo for Java? I thought that was JPackage. Nobody can redistribute repackaged Sun binaries because that would break the terms of Sun's license. Paul.
