Re: mpkg-j2se and sun java 1.5 beta2
>From a message elsewhere in debian-java:
* include j2se-package patch for Sun 1.5.0b2
see http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2004/06/msg00043.html
new package is available at following apt-line:
deb http://yamaguch.sytes.net/~tora/tmp/mpkg-j2se ./
deb-src http://yamaguch.sytes.net/~tora/tmp/mpkg-j2se ./
I guess the change made there will be the way Debian goes.
By the way, make sure you read licences.
Sun Java J2SE 5 1.5 (how many version numbers do we really need)
licence, clause 3.4:
"Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed Software for
productive or commercial use."
Well, that blows. I don't think mpkg-j2se can be considered as having
a release critical bug just because it doesn't work with some
prerelease Sun software that isn't even usable (per the licence)
anyway.
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:39:53 +0200, Robert Derochette
<lord_rob26@softhome.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just discovered that j2se-package is now in unstable under the name
> of mpkg-j2se. So I tested it, first with jdk-1_5_0-rc-linux-i586.bin but
> mpkg-j2se is not compatible with java 1.5 rc. So I tried it with
> jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin. mpkg-j2se works with this version. The
> problem is, as Hubert Schmidt told me earlier, when run as root the java
> 1.5 beta 2 installer puts a lot of files in /usr/share. If you did not
> pay attention to this, then try :
>
> 1° Make sure you run in user mode, and your user has no write access to
> /usr/share
> 2° (user mode shell prompt) # fakeroot mpkg-j2se
> /path/to/jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin
>
> Now watch all error messages displayed, messages such as :
>
> /home/robert/downloads/jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin: line 247:
> /etc/mailcap: Permission denied
> mkdir: Cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48':
> Permission denied
> mkdir: Cannot create directory
> `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48': Permission denied
> mkdir: Cannot create directory `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48':
> Permission denied
> cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png':
> Permission denied
> (... and lots more error messages like this ...)
>
> I did not know how to overcome this problem until I realized that Sun
> Java installers were nothing more than zipfiles with more data in them
> (the installation script and maybe the license agreement but nothing
> really essential to install java correctly), so it was possible to
> extract the content of the archive with unzip. Once all the files are
> unzipped, you are almost done but for java >= 1.4 you have to extract
> every file with the extension .pack to the same filename with the
> extension .jar (a binary unpacker included in the java installer archive
> does the job, it is deleted when installation is completed for java <=
> 1.5 beta 1). Finally, for java >= 1.5 beta 1, there is also something
> new : the Class Data Sharing Archive [1]. This file is not extracted
> from the archive but generated from scratch after extraction is
> completed. If you run twice the java installer, you'll most likely end
> with two different |classes.jsa files. So after all this reverse
> engineering, I've come with this small script. Note that this script
> only works when run in an empty directory (it was made to be integrated
> with mpkg-j2se, formerly j2se-package). Well, I've tried several Sun
> Java versions from 1.3 to 1.5 rc with java-extract.sh and using the
> standard installer run as fakeroot, and diff reports only a difference
> in classes.jsa only for java 1.5 (the class data sharing archive that I
> explained above). Well, now I don't know exactly if this way of
> extracting the java data is legal (I did not manage to display the
> license agreement before starting the extraction) and it seems a bit
> inspired by the "ancient art of cracking ;-)". I have also integrated
> javaextract.sh in a custom version of j2se-package [2], as I have
> already posted in this mailing list.
>
> So my question is : "what are you going to do to overcome the problem of
> all those files in /usr/share ?". Isn't it a release critical bug too ?
> IIRC, java 1.5 beta 1 also puts files in /usr/share when run as root,
> does that mean mpkg-j2se shouldn't support java >= 1.5 beta 1 ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Derochette
> |
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> [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/class-data-sharing.html
> [2] http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~derochet/index.php (source
> available directly at
> http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~derochet/source/j2se-package_0.9b.tar.gz).
>
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