* Walter Cazzola <cazzola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-09-10 12:33]: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Deepak Bhole wrote: > > >* Walter Cazzola <cazzola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-09-10 11:34]: > >>Dear all, > >>On my Fedora 13 machine I've to use the sun/oracle jdk distribution. To > >>install and configure this is not a problem (downloaded the bin from the > >>sun web site and run it). > > >May I ask what it is specifically that requires Sun/Oracle that > >OpenJDK cannot satisfy? > > yes, we have developed an extension of the java language (@java > http://homes.dico.unimi.it/~cazzola/atjava.html) that manipulates a > little the bytecode and at the moment (we are still try to understand > why) it works only with that virtual machine and also with a specific > version. > > Since at the moment I'm doing some experiment (quite urgent) for a paper > I don't have the time to explore the issue and doing the porting so I > prefer to reinstall the environment I know it works. > Ah I see. > >>But we I try to install something based on java (e.g., antlr, javassist, > >>bcel, ...) yum always proposes to install either java-1.5.0-gcj or > >>java-1.6.0-openjdk as java wasn't installed at all. > > >This is due to a requirement on java/java-devel that the Sun/Oracle > >RPM does not provide. > > is there a way to accomplish this requirement? > You need to create a dummy package that provides those things. The jpackage compat packages will do that for you though, so once you install them, it should be fine. Cheers, Deepak > >>For several reasons I'm bound to a specific version of sun JVM (v1.5) > >>and I can't use the other virtual machines > > >Not that I am trying to preach or anything, but Sun/Oracle no longer > >supports 1.5 for consumers.. if your software is bound to that > >specifically, you should change it as the 1.5 JDK security issues will > >no longer be addressed. > > I know that but fortunately our is all except a product line so I can > live with 1.5 without worrying about security (it is just confined in a > virtualbox's guest and it is not used to implement critical sw); it > should just a proof-of-concepts at the moment. > > >>So there is a way to convince yum that I've installed java and to use it > >>when I'll try to add some java related software? > > >You can try installing the sun compat rpm from JPackage > >(www.jpackage.org). > > I'll give it a try, thanks for the link > > Walter > > -- > Walter Cazzola, PhD - Assistant Professor, DICo, University of Milano > E-mail cazzola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Ph.: +39 02 503 16300 Fax: +39 02 503 16253 > · · · ---------------------------- · · · ---------------------------- · · · > ... recursive: adjective, see recursive ... > · · · ---------------------------- · · · ---------------------------- · · · -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
