There are a number of issues with the bundles produced for all the architectures. ( Summary from email discussion between
(Kelly, Gustavo, Suchen, Roger L, Roger Y, Jeannette, Bill H, David Katleman, John Hoffmann)
1) No machine readable manifests for bundle verification
2) No fixed versioned descriptions
3) No machine readable ( approximate manifest of contents of bundle )
4) Relationship of each object to signing and digesting artifacts
5) Solaris *.tar.Z bundles contain SVR4 packages.
6) Month name in the dates is a bad idea, creates localization issues, pure numbers would be better.
7) On Windows the *tar files contain extra files, *.pdb and *.map files.
8) For some reasons some *.tar files were not compressed, not sure why, it would be nice to be consistent.
9) The only reason I know of to keep the *.sh/*.bin files would be to do the postinstall steps (plugin only? Or CDS too?)
This bug and http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=7020812 should be combined
- Win (32 & 64) JRE JARs -> Win JRE exe
- Win Debug JAR -> Win Debug tar
- Solaris (32 & 64) JRE JARs -> JRE tar
- Solaris Debug JAR -> Debug tar
- Linux (32 & 64) JRE JARs -> JRE tar.gz
- Linux Debug JAR -> Debug tar.gz
(Kelly, Gustavo, Suchen, Roger L, Roger Y, Jeannette, Bill H, David Katleman, John Hoffmann)
1) No machine readable manifests for bundle verification
2) No fixed versioned descriptions
3) No machine readable ( approximate manifest of contents of bundle )
4) Relationship of each object to signing and digesting artifacts
5) Solaris *.tar.Z bundles contain SVR4 packages.
6) Month name in the dates is a bad idea, creates localization issues, pure numbers would be better.
7) On Windows the *tar files contain extra files, *.pdb and *.map files.
8) For some reasons some *.tar files were not compressed, not sure why, it would be nice to be consistent.
9) The only reason I know of to keep the *.sh/*.bin files would be to do the postinstall steps (plugin only? Or CDS too?)
This bug and http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=7020812 should be combined
- Win (32 & 64) JRE JARs -> Win JRE exe
- Win Debug JAR -> Win Debug tar
- Solaris (32 & 64) JRE JARs -> JRE tar
- Solaris Debug JAR -> Debug tar
- Linux (32 & 64) JRE JARs -> JRE tar.gz
- Linux Debug JAR -> Debug tar.gz
- relates to
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JDK-7028849 Stop producing self-extracting archives for Solaris & Linux
- Closed
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JDK-7020812 Provide JRE exe and zip on JDK7 download page on java.net
- Closed