perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Stijn Melis wrote:
>> Tomcat can also start with GCJ. Sun JDK is not explicitly given as a
>> dependency, so sun JDK should be defined as a dependency for all
>> perfsonar packages.
>>
>> Shame on you Michael ;)
>>
>>     
>
> So, to cut a long story short: do I have to add sun-java5-jdk or
> sun-java6-jdk to the dependencies? Gijs says yes, Cándido and Michael
> say I don't have to change it, I'm a bit confused :)
>
> At the moment for deb I have the following:
>
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tomcat5.5, tomcat5.5-exist,
> java5-runtime | java6-runtime | java-virtual-machine
>   

> and for rpm I have this:
>
> # on what packages should the resulting package depend
> Requires: tomcat5
> Requires: tomcat5-exist
>
> Since the rpm part doesn't mention java I presume I have to add
> something there, right? And because the deb part already mentions java
> runtime, I presume that one is okay, correct?
>   

The problem is that the RPM's for sun java have different names for
different distributions. I don't remember what was decided to fix this,
but leaving it out isn't a big problem as long it is clear in the
installation manual that sun java should be installed. Please take a
look at the other packages on what they do with this issue.

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