Re: blackdown jdk and current sid libc6 (2.3.x)

[Glen Mehn <glen@burningman.com>]

Rupa Schomaker wrote:

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> Just an FYI:
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> Blackdown and Sun's 1.3.1 don't play well with libc 2.3.x.
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> IBM's 1.3.1 does seem to work fine (at least so far).  I've build an
> ibm .deb using alien plus some pre/postrm to update alternatives.  My
> deb is no where near distributable (even if the license allowed it)
> but I did want to give a datapoint as to what works...
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> So far so good.
It would be really cool if you made a .deb of the script(s) to convert 
the .rpm to a .deb and install it (maybe even use wget to get it?).

Although you might need to get it dhs compliant.

-g