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Re: linux 9.3.11: /usr/bin/java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Aug 26 11:12:33 2004

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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(Whoops, meant to send this yesterday.)

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 11:40, Robert A Basch wrote:
> I was thinking more along the lines of having a trigger in
> our rpm, which would determine the right path and adjust
> things accordingly.  (The Sun rpms contain scriptlets with
> similar logic).  So the risk would be more from a logic error
> or a change in the directory naming scheme, but having a
> useful diagnostic from the trigger scriptlet might militate
> against that.

Okay, I'm sold, because this means the java/javac in the default path
would be a native SDK on both platforms, instead of having it be native
on one platform and from a locker on the other.


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