On 08/18/2011 05:52 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > >>> Makes sense, and I would propose that would replace the current content >>> on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS >> My thoughts exactly ! > I am missing something ... a review of google inlinks > indicates this page is widely referenced by third party sites. > Casually blowing this away without preserving at least parts > seems ill considered change for its own sake We are not blowing it away. It will remain the land point which will further reference JRE and JDK. Although, now that I started to fill in the JDK page, I am tempted to join them. But we should discuss that once we have more info to play with in the wiki . For now I am trying to bring the new JDK page to life ( and refine the JRE one) > The top part by me remains a general and valid description of > a method for getting Oracle's / Sun Java running ... not > perhaps the easiest in light of some later changes, and > perhaps not the 'ight' solution in light of the growth in > maturity of openjdk ... but that The top part written by you is exactly what we'll refine. The last round of packages from Oracle are quite sane. You download a $STUFF.bin, run it and - it will ask to agree to the license - expand into a bunch of rpm packages: jdk-6u27-linux-i586.rpm sun-javadb-client-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm sun-javadb-common-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm sun-javadb-core-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm sun-javadb-demo-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm sun-javadb-docs-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm sun-javadb-javadoc-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm - install all the packages ( if you have the needed rights) What is still needed is a clean solution to add that to the alternatives system > The bottom remains a rotting trainwreck needing maintenance > every time Oracle issues an update ... shocking. Who could > have predicted that? The old method to create several rpms from the tar bundle ( using jpackage's nosrc ) is completely obsolete. <rant mode on> Did I mention that moinmoin's syntax is awful and I cannot believe I even thought about using it inside the company I work for ? </rant mode off> _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
