Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 10:23 -0600, Richi Plana a écrit : > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 11:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I want to know the correct JAVA_HOME and PATH settings for all the > > possible JVMs when they are installed as alternatives-conforming RPM > > packages but are not the system default. Is this documented somewhere? > > It seems the current convention is to put the JAVA packages > under /usr/lib/jvm/(java|jre)-<majversion>-<vendor>-<majminversion> with > certain packages going to /usr/lib/jvm-exports/ > and /usr/lib/jvm-private/ > > Who's convention is this, anyway? Originally, mine when I was active @jpp and was packaging jvms > And what's it called? You know, you're the first person to ask this question I know of:) The layout and its intent is described in the jpackage-1.5-policy document shipped with jpackage utils. IIRC I wrote this file a week after baking the layout and the associated shell scripts, so that would date its definition around March 10, 2003. I never thought of giving it a name. Today that would be JPackage conventions for most people. > It seems Fedora > and jpackage both honor this convention (and alternatives uses it. Or > maybe it's the other way around ... this convention uses was designed > around alternatives). Fedora Java packaging as it's known today is a JPackage fork (periodically rebased). The Red Hat Java group originally started from its own package repository IIRC, but struggled to package the Java world and decided later to use a JPackage base as its repo was more complete. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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