[4018] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Putting Sun JRE package in Linux Athena release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Sep 17 10:58:58 2003
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:58:55 -0400
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 02:25, Greg Hudson wrote:
> * It's 60MB, which is a noticeable bite, but hopefully not too big.
There are actually two packages -- the 60MB one is the full SDK,
while the JRE itself is about 35MB. I think it is sufficient to
install only the latter; the SDK would still be available in the
java locker.
> * Its postinstall script copies its man pages to /usr/local/man/man1,
> for some reason. Strange, but probably no big deal.
Yes, that is a little annoying, and inconsistent (the commands
are left in a nonstandard bin directory).
Perhaps more annoying is that the software is installed under a
version-dependent directory, /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01. So we will
have to adjust Mozilla's plugin path, one way or another, when
the package is updated. Also, the path will be different on the
two platforms; the Sun packages are installed under /usr/j2se
(version-independent).
I also noticed that the package includes kinit and klist (those
popular Java tools), but that should only be a problem if
someone puts the JRE bin directory before /usr/athena/bin in
the PATH.
> * Its postinstall script munges /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types. I
> assume that neither helps nor hurts us.
I think that is right.
Bob
