[fedora-java] Re: [JPackage-discuss] extension directories

[David Walluck]

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Anthony Green wrote:
> I don't think gcj-endorsed is the right place for this.  In theory this
> should only contains .jar files for classes in the blessed endorsed
> namespace.  The bouncycastle jar files should go in java.ext.dirs.  

I just tried the latest java-gcj-compat (62) rpm and are you suggesting
moving the bcprov jar there? Currently, if it's not in
/usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed, then gcj cannot find it. Note, this is
where jessie and gnu-crypto are already and bc is no different as far as
I can see.

Also, some of the symlinks in /usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed are
versioned, while others are not. What is the policy here?

> Should gcj be searching java.ext.dirs recursively?  It doesn't do that
> today, but from the way bouncycastle is installed, I'm guessing it
> should.

I am not sure what the specs say. In my updated package, I use only
%{_javadir}, so this becomes a non-issue. Remember, nothing ever used
the /usr/share/java-ext directory explicitly, so we never ran into the
issue, even on the proprietary stacks.

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Sincerely,

David Walluck
<david at zarb.org>
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