perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Stijn Melis wrote:
> Michael Bischoff wrote:
>   
>>> 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 :)
>>>>         
>> Well that's because your at a fork in the road; You can force people to 
>> use only supported
>> configurations or you can allow people mix and match to better suit there 
>> integration needs.
>>
>> If you go for the former you save yourself from cluttering your support 
>> process with issues
>> related to unsupported platforms. If you go for the latter you allow more 
>> flexibility to the
>> end-user.
>>
>> With the first in mind, you end up with the option gijs gave you. Depend 
>> on sun-java
>> specifically as we marked that as supported platform.
>>
>> With the latter in mind you lean towards Cándido approach, allow the user 
>> to choose his own
>> jdk implementation but that might lead to unsupported configurations 
>> (while the user might
>> not be aware of it at first). We had some funny issues using the GCJ 
>> during testing for
>> example.
>>
>> I slightly favour the first because of the following reasons:
>> - you can always relax it later but the other way around might lead to a 
>> lot of issues /
>> disgruntled users.
>> - Since we already explicitly depend on tomcat the flexibility is already 
>> crippled to such
>> and extend that allowing the user to choose it's jvm impl still doesn't 
>> offer him much. (The
>> people that use IBM impl usually use webspere as a container not tomcat.
>> - bug reports would be more streamlined.
>> - War distribution allows you to mix and match so it's not like we totally 
>> restrict the
>> option of mixing and matching configurations.
>>
>>     
>
> Okay, I will go with the first option then.
>
> Just to conclude: for the deb files the dependencies are correct, right?
>
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tomcat5.5, tomcat5.5-exist,
> java5-runtime | java6-runtime | java-virtual-machine
>
> And which package should I add for rpm? I tried jdk-1.5.0_16, but this
> isn't recognized as a package.
>   

Again, please look at the examples in the SVN (trunk/packaging), they
should be correct. And if they are not, at least it is consistantly wrong ;)

 - gijs

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