On Monday 04 December 2006 11:12, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 04 December 2006 09:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >>> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> I'd like to do this, so its a valid part of the rpm database, can I >>>> get the .spec file somewhere? Or, maybe even better, get it in the >>>> right format from the OpenJava site, but the propaganda all reads >>>> like its source only & doesn't seem to say if it will build with the >>>> current gcc. >>> >>> As I (sort of) pointed out in another post, the best bet is the NOSRC >>> rpms for Sun Java from jpackage.org. You grab the .nosrc.rpm from >>> jpackage and the .bin installer from Sun and follow the instructions >>> on the jpackage site. >> >> Which seems to have been pretty well hidden, so far all I've found are >> the src rpms. The .bin installer I have, unpacked even. But yum >> can't find the -fc .xml's for fc6 because nothing newer than fc4 is >> available. So I disabled that repo in order for yumex to proceed. >> >> The only likely looking candidate is in non-free, and is labeled: >> java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.09.jpp-noarch >> which claims to be the jpackage compatibilty for suns jdk of the same >> version number. Unforch, its 1.5.0.10 I have the .bin for. >> >> I'm going to grab it with yum and see what it might be. >> >> But that's not going to fly: >> Missing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_09-fcs is needed by package >> java-1.5.0-sun-compat >> >> And I don't believe this package is available as the fc5 & fc6 >> listings aren't even there when I look at the mirrors. What are we >> going to have to do, wait 2 years before OpenJava gets mature enough >> to use? > >It's pretty obscure, as it turns out. Visit >http://jpackage.org/browser/browse.php?jppversion=1.7 and scroll down to >the bottom, where the "nonfree" packages are listed. I got 3 of them, from 1.4.2 thru 1.6.0. Where do I find the matching .bin's? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
