[lsb-discuss] LSB 3.2 Compliance Report: Sun JRE 6 (update 5) on x86

Joseph Kowalski jek3 at sun.com
Thu May 1 14:55:48 PDT 2008


Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>>> From the FHS, chapter 4, first section ("Purpose"):
>>>
>>> "Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under 
>>> the /usr hierarchy."
>> This is OK for "Small software packages"?  :-)
>
> And Java is "small" for the purposes of the spec?  You're good; have 
> you ever worked for ISO? :-)
Heh, be nice....
>> I guess the best plan is to assume that Java becomes part of the 
>> LSB.  If it does, we don't have to tilt at this particular windmill.  
>> I just didn't want it to be assumed that /opt/.. should be taken as 
>> an action item by Sun.
>
> At the moment, the only action item I could see for Sun would be to 
> *allow* installation into /opt.  Something like "./configure 
> --prefix=/opt/java" or whatever.  I think I've seen Sun-derived Java 
> stuff do this before, so I don't think that's even an issue.
>
> (The same, of course, would be true for IBM, BEA, etc.)
You're thinking in terms of source code.  We deal in binaries.

However, your point is a good one.  The prefix could be done by rpm 
(actually, should work, but our RPMs are pretty poor).

- jek3





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