[gentoo-java] Java 1.5 update and script for re-emerging all Java packages

[gentoo-java] Java 1.5 update and script for re-emerging all Java packages

[Joshua Nichols]

Hey folks, I've recently updated the project page to include some more
information about the Java 1.5 Overlay.

In case you hadn't heard, the project page is located at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/

I barely made the commit, so it may take a bit to hit the main site.


Related to this, when switching over to the overlay, it is highly
recommended you re-emerge all Java packages. This is pretty important,
because the packages now maintain additional metadata.

Until now, we haven't had a nice packaged way of doing this. I've made
up a script that will hopefully handle this.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~nichoj/scripts/remerge-java-packages.sh

I've used this a few times without problems, but as always, could use
some input/feedback.

NOTE: this is _not_ for fixing a system that was using Java 1.5 as a
system VM  before switching to the overlay.


Regards,

Josh
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