findbugs [LSARC/2008/642 FastTrack timeout 10/27/2008]

[Tom Childers]

Hello, Petr.

Is that an acceptable solution?
-tdc

On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Danek Duvall wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:01:31AM -0800, Tom Childers wrote:
>
>> Looking at this case, which has been sitting for a couple of weeks, I
>> realize that Petr has raised an issue that we need to clarify. If  
>> we use
>> links in /usr/share/java to point to the most recent version of each
>> component, and underlying components can be delivered by different
>> packages, then links may get changed and cause things to break.
>>
>> Can we simply assume that IPS handles this situation correctly?
>> If so, are we requiring that all of these FOSS projects going into
>> OpenSolaris use IPS?
>
> Those links need each to be delivered exactly once on a system, by  
> just one
> package.  No packaging system can deal with a single file being  
> delivered
> multiple times by conflicting package developers.
>
> I'd suggest that projects either directly use the versioned jar file  
> that's
> most appropriate for their needs, or install a symlink in a private
> directory to the jar file they need, and put that in their classpath.
> Perhaps there are other alternatives, too.
>
> Danek