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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FjN7D-0002AL-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:11:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4PL9eof026239; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:09:40 GMT Received: from brmea-mail-4.sun.com (brmea-mail-4.Sun.COM [192.18.98.36]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4PL9ct0001007 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:09:39 GMT Received: from fe-amer-01.sun.com ([192.18.108.175]) by brmea-mail-4.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k4PL9bH1018970 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:09:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) id <0IZU00601A69PO00@mail-amer.sun.com> (original mail from David.Herron@Sun.COM) for gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:09:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.106] ([66.92.11.96]) by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0IZU001GJAS0CWE3@mail-amer.sun.com> for gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:09:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:09:56 -0700 From: David Herron Subject: [gentoo-java] JCE and Java 1.5 packaging for gentoo Sender: David.Herron@Sun.COM To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44761D24.6050309@sun.com> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_p7gW8mYJOUPyXTgz/UwjCw)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) X-Archives-Salt: 6d817411-8c0e-4558-b142-0bcdaac3f73d X-Archives-Hash: 65a14747d47f58e2bae589a55658e34f This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_p7gW8mYJOUPyXTgz/UwjCw) Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, I'm looking again at the Java packaging for gentoo. The instructions I got from Karl were: # mkdir -p /usr/local/overlays # cd /usr/local/overlays # svn co \ https://svn.gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental \ experimental # PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/experimental" \ USE="jce" \ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" \ emerge sun-jdk-bin As he says, it prints a message about having to download the unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files before the install can proceed. There's two issues I see: 1- It gives a download URL that starts with javashoplm.foo.bar ... the person should be directed to the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp page instead and start from there. 2- Why is this needed? In the Debian packaging we didn't have to do this. What Tom Marble said to me about this is: as long as they don't ship strong crypto and prevent embargo cntry download they should be ok I do understand - this file is going to be required to turn on some of the JCE facilities we probably limit in the default config. - David Herron --Boundary_(ID_p7gW8mYJOUPyXTgz/UwjCw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, I'm looking again at the Java packaging for gentoo. 

The instructions I got from Karl were:

# mkdir -p /usr/local/overlays

# cd /usr/local/overlays

# svn co \
  https://svn.gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental \
  experimental
# PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/experimental" \
  USE="jce" \
  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" \
  emerge sun-jdk-bin

As he says, it prints a message about having to download the unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files before the install can proceed.

There's two issues I see:

1- It gives a download URL that starts with javashoplm.foo.bar ... the person should be directed to the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp page instead and start from there.

2- Why is this needed?  In the Debian packaging we didn't have to do this.  What Tom Marble said to me about this is:
as long as they don't ship strong
crypto and prevent embargo
cntry download they should be ok
I do understand - this file is going to be required to turn on some of the JCE facilities we probably limit in the default config.


- David Herron

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