On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 08:33 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/23/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > If you want to find out how gentoo installs sun-jdk I suggest you > > read the ebuild, I have had a quick look and it seems to use a > > .bin file from Sun, not an rpm. > > > > It also looks as though a bit of trickery is used to unpack the bin > > file. > > if it's using the .bin which enables the ebuild to sidestep that bug > then it doesn't follow that redhat, or whomever, couldn't put out an > rpm using the same trickery.
Why? gentoo is not distributing sun-jdk. a binary rpm would be. read the ebuild. read the license. > > > The ebuild will also tell you where gentoo installs the package, > > looks to be in the /opt directory, so I guess the ebuild is not > > following the LFS either. > ... > > heh, that's ironic. > why? > > -Thufir > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
