From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENuyl-0006Pp-8j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:21:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j97GCm5g014478; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:12:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j97GClbY029221 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:12:48 GMT Received: from hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.72]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENuyV-0000JU-Eu for gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:21:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A6593822E for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:21:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ytpme.home.keanu.be (dD576C8E3.access.telenet.be [213.118.200.227]) by hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3F23817D for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:21:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ytpme.home.keanu.be (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B6D5FFA2F9E; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:21:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:21:59 +0200 From: Thomas Matthijs To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-java] axxo-overlay: Request for comments/tests/feedback Message-ID: <20051007162159.GA2593@ytpme.telenet.be> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-java@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: ab8368b4-e161-41a1-a38d-9d3de32dbf99 X-Archives-Hash: c51192a353913c5431f8c14ad4dc87e9 Hey, I've been working on an overlay, where I'm trying to get things fixed so that 1.5 can be unmasked (finally?!) I would like some feedback/comments on _any_ part of it. I want to make sure what I'm doing is good, and hasn't got any big holes, or anything like that so that it might one day be merged into the main tree. So if there is anything about it you don't like, yell now and I'll see if I can change it. Or anything else you can think of it needs, or it needs to do different ..... Most important changes are: - merge time vm switching(#86900) - merge time build.xml rewriting (#86903) - my branch of the java-config-ng started by compnerd - Uses symlinks instead of PATH hacks to choose between user/system vm, which is more flexible. - Removal of jikes useflag, you can now easily choose betwean javac/eclipse-ecj/jikes (when the ebuild supports it) - And a variation of other small things You can find a list of bugs it fixes here: http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/axxo-overlay/README/bugs-this-fixed I also updated the user doc http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/axxo-overlay/README/docs/java-user.html And made a devel doc/packaging guide/policy http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/axxo-overlay/README/docs/java-devel.html (disclaimer I absolutely hate writing docs, I stole most of it) I also have a todo file, if you wish to help: http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/axxo-overlay/README/todo I recommend testing this in a chroot. Although everything should work, and it shouldn't nuke your system. You can find it in svn on gentooexperimental.org http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/axxo-overlay/ Just checkout it somewhere and stick it in PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf. Java packages from the main tree not in my overlay with updates for it will no longer work. So watch out for that, I usually try to keep it updated but it can lag behind the main tree. If you allready have jre/jdk's installed you should also remerged them, they should have rev bumps in the overlay, so running emerge -uD world, should do the trick Thanks -- Thomas Matthijs (axxo, knu) -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list