Name: gm110360 Date: 05/06/2002


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-b92)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode)

redhat 7.1
i386

ADDITIONAL OPERATING SYSTEMS :
The error is in the RPM, not the OS


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Java is not being installed according to the Linux Standards
Base. No effort is made to designate files in the RPM as
documentation or configuration. Shareable files(docs,
examples, manpages, are not separated from unshareable
files(binaries) but instead dumped in a big directory
containing all java1.4 related files. no effort is made to
include java in the standard path. The manpages are copied
into a manpage location, a hard or softlink would suffice.
Solution would be to read the Linux Standards Base, esp the
Standard Filesystem Hierachy, and install the software
accordingly. The way it is now is considered bad practice
and uses none of the benefits the RPM system offers.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1.rpm -ql j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs
2.rpm -ql --scripts j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs
3.rpm -ql -c j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs
4.rpm -ql -d j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
read description, LSB etc.
everything is now in one directory, should be in separate
directories (shared/not-shared, variable/static). For
example look at the output of " rpm -ql kaffe-1.0.6-3" (that
is, if kaffe is installed, which would probably not be the
case at sun) J2sdk en J2jre should replace kaffe, and
earlier versions of itself.

This bug can be reproduced always.

CUSTOMER WORKAROUND :
make links to correct locations after install. This thwarts
RPM, but it is not used effectively now anyway.
(Review ID: 146060)
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