On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:50 -0500, David Walluck wrote: > Anthony Green wrote: > > I don't think gcj-endorsed is the right place for this. In theory this > > should only contains .jar files for classes in the blessed endorsed > > namespace. The bouncycastle jar files should go in java.ext.dirs. > > I just tried the latest java-gcj-compat (62) rpm and are you suggesting > moving the bcprov jar there? Currently, if it's not in > /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed, then gcj cannot find it. Note, this is > where jessie and gnu-crypto are already and bc is no different as far as > I can see. I'd like to suggest that we move all of these providers out of /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed and into the appropriate extensions directory. My understanding is that's where providers belong, and the endorsed directories are reserved for packages within the special endorsed namespaces. > Also, some of the symlinks in /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed are > versioned, while others are not. What is the policy here? No idea. AG
