Distributing Java

John Nilsson john at milsson.nu
Mon Oct 17 15:02:56 CDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:03 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 17.10.2005, 14:50 -0400 schrieb John Dong:
> > Hey, I'm pretty busy recently, and need some help from the community
> > for making Java packages.
> > 
> > It looks legal to have the user download the .bin package from Sun (so
> > it's gonna be an interactive deb), and place it in /tmp, then have
> > java-package process a deb, and somehow get that .deb to install (most
> > likely extracted and data.tar.gz unpacked into /root, since you can't
> > call dpkg -i in the middle of a dpkg operation).
> did you notice that the blackdown packages are included in multivese
> since breezy ?

Isn't blackdown only 1.4?

I'm extremley time constraint atm but was having plans on implementing
this when I get the time.

Mabey I can help later (next month or so...)

Regards,
John Nilsson




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