Re: pkg/40089 (PLIST informs about a non-existent file in sun-jre6)

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/40089; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/40089 (PLIST informs about a non-existent file in sun-jre6)
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:45:17 +0100

 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:40:05AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 > 
 >  lib/servicetag/registration.xml may be created in extract phase,
 >  by register_JDK() in the self-extract file.
 
 Thank you for finding the reason why that file appears.
 
 >  It use bin/java in extracted directory, then it depend on where
 >  the 'java' works or not.
 >  On my environment, failed due to missing libjli.so, even if sun-jre6 is
 >  installed or not, then I can't find the situation thet it works fine.
 
 Could it be that it would work if the enviornment variable JAVA_HOME is
 pointing to a working java installation?
 
 >  After adding following line to sun-jre6/Makefile.common, everytime succeed 
 > to regist,
 >  EXTRACT_ENV+=        
 > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH:S/${JAVA_HOME}/${WRKSRC}/}
 >  But result of registration.xml contains ${WRKSRC}, it is probably bad.
 >  
 >  Then I think it should be changed to:
 >   1 remove lib/servicetag/registration.xml in post-extract stage
 >   2 invoke regist in INSTALL script (if regist is required).
 
 IMHO an automatic registration, which I think will send data of your system to 
sun,
 should not be done at all.
 
 It is not nessasary to do that to use java.
 
 http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/productregistration/
 
 The following page has the java source code for the register function:
 
http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/IDE-Netbeans/reglib/com/sun/servicetag/Installer.java.htm
 
 Bernd