Re: [SPAM] Re: Java Runtime Environment plugin for Firefox

Hi all,

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 17:00, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2005 11:55, Jon Roland wrote:
> > But would it be so difficult for a packager to write an rpm that would
> > invoke Sun's rpm, which presents the license agreement, and would then
> > create the symlink in the appropriate directory? That would avoid any legal
> > problems and get the job done in a way that could allow smooth upgrades
> > without having to make it a research project.
> 
> The difficulty arises from a couple of sources.
> 
> First, Sun's RPM is wrapped in a non-RPM binary installer that asks you the 
> question.  Next, during installation, an RPM's scriptlets are actively 
> discouraged from writing anything to stdout or reading anything from stdin.  
> RPM itself makes it very difficult to do anything at all interactive during 
> package installation.  Further, yum and the other tools currently are not 
> written to do anything at all interactive while installing/updating an RPM.  
> Since yum in particular is designed to make automatic updates easy, an 
> interactive RPM installation really gums up the works.

Wouldn't it be possible, in fact trivial, to create an RPM that depends
on Sun's RPM being already installed (a particular version), and simply
contains the appropriate symlink for the JVM plugin?

Cheers, Chris.
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(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer ([email protected])