Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-java (8 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 08 June 2008 23:07:42 Kirill Kirillov wrote:
> Hello all.

Hi,

great work!
> 1) I've improved jMemorize.spec [1] according to java guidelines, so
> it can be included to Factory. I've question about it: please explain
> what permissions should jar files have: 0755 or 0644?

Well, the openSUSE has support for binfmt_misc, so it's possible to run 
the jar as elf binary - chmod a+x foo.jar, ./foo.jar works. But the 
common way is to use some shell script to in /usr/bin, than executable 
jar, because this shoule work on every Unix system.
> 2) I've built XLogo from source codes [2]. I've question about
> signing jar files: is it possible to sign jar in BuildService? For
> now signing is disabled (correspondent lines removed from build.xml),
> so final xlogo.jar is not suitable for using in Java Web Start in
> websites, so it's only for local use.

As I see, you've modify a source tarball directly. Please do not modify 
an upstream tarball directly, this is bad for maintenace. The better 
solution is use a patch, add him to the spec, because it's clear what 
is an upstream code and what is a vendor's change.

Spec:

Patch0: %{name}-remove-signjar.patch

%patch0 -b .sav

There's something informations about %patch macro 
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-macros.html
and a patching
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm2/


> 3) I've asked GeoGebra developers about migrating to BuildService for
> providing rpm, but GeoGebra has build-in feature to export the
> construction as a webpage. This export includes the GeoGebra applet
> which should be signed and GeoGebra developers are trying to avoid
> appearing unsigned jars on the web. Is it possible to resolve this
> problem?

I'll contact adrian and get some result from him. There's some support 
for gpg signing, so it may be easy to add somethink for java packages.

MV
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